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Tim Cook on What He Would Do in Mark Zuckerberg's Shoes: 'I Wouldn't Be in This Situation'
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Really? Do you know that Apple store iCloud data in Google data center? Oh, if that's not enough, Apple's iCloud data is also stored in Amazon's AWS
Incorrect; your data is always changing and evolving. Please explain why Google went and stole people's IP addresses in their white vans when they were taking street view pictures for Google Earth and were subsequently sued by over 30 states? Or how Google Home speakers "accidentally" were broadcasting homeowners conversations back to servers in Mountain View?
Please. Google is a data mining, data harvesting company which treads on people's privacy for its own gain.
As much as any other reason, why I remain all-in with Apple. Now more than ever.
Zuck would have said the same thing if he was asked about how iPhones were getting forced shutdown to push people to buy new phones. Tim should have stayed silent and taken the high road. This is hitting below the belt. Didn't expect this response.
False, right down to the dying headphone jack which Apple killed first.
PERFECT response, Tim!
However, it will be a complete fail - IF Apple was ever found to have an open backdoor into iOS for the Feds.
However, it will be a complete fail - IF Apple was ever found to have an open backdoor into iOS for the Feds.
I agree with Tim that it is creepy to start getting served ads for something you just bought as soon you hit another site.
However, the other side is also creepy, like my wife getting Viagra ads.
There has to be some middle ground where the power of the internet can be leveraged so that I don't get served junk that doesn't make sense for me, and making me feel like someone is monitoring my every move.
However, the other side is also creepy, like my wife getting Viagra ads.
There has to be some middle ground where the power of the internet can be leveraged so that I don't get served junk that doesn't make sense for me, and making me feel like someone is monitoring my every move.
It’s not about whether Apple may have a leak or a security issue in the future. It is about the corporate policy and intent. And to this point, Tim speaks the truth. Apple is not in the business of mining all of your data for marketing. It is a simple fact. Facebook is, as is Google. That IS their model. FB is not selling you a product and making money by getting you to “open up your wallet”. FB and many aspects of Google are getting revenue from making you open up your Address book and all of your personal likes and dislikes, monitoring your every keystroke. That is clearly what Tim is addressing here. Having data stolen is very different from having the data you collected from users being used in an unexpected way. That is what has blown up on FB regarding this scandal. This isn’t about some hacking job, which yes, Apple is susceptible to as well. It’s about the nature of how the company views the privacy and personal data of its customer and how that casualness with privacy was exploited.
The problem is all your friends surrender (knowingly or unknowingly) the information they have on you to Facebook.
Tim Cook said:
Yet it's totally fine for iTunes to have rated R movies and shows full of nudity, and music with racist epithets.
Seriously, what does "hate speech on our App Store" even mean? The App Store full of apps that encourage physical violence against the current President. What if I submitted an app that did the same for a previous President?
Moving in the direction of having a tough stand on privacy does not mean you can’t have a slip-up with a iphone app. It will happen and only those with an axe to grind will make it “fake news”.
Zuckerberg and Cook right now are both in situations they deserve. Cook has repeatedly said that Apple values our privacy and will not compromise. Zuckerberg has been caught out doing abhorrent things with our data.
You're wasting your time. Look at all the rhetoric he's posted thus far. It literally not even worth your time to engage. You'll only get more of the same.
I hope Apple stays committed and improves on security. They’re the only major tech company that is somewhat good on this issue and I hope they take it even further.
I would never own an Android device after reading how easy it was for Facebook to steal call and text logs from outside the app.
I would never own an Android device after reading how easy it was for Facebook to steal call and text logs from outside the app.
I do agree that Siri is the worst of any KI and if the KI's ever take over the world, Siri will probably kick my ass first.
But I am not sure that there is a correlation in that. Siri cannot follow up on questions that is not a question of privacy, but of coherences within uttered tasks that could be temporarily stored and deleted if necessary. Many of those utterances don't include personal data. But I think it would be nice if Siri could do a lot of the tasks that can be done by hand. I.e. "add song to playlist", "remove song from playlist", "increase to normal audio level", "this is normal audio level", "how's the weather in xy compared to the weather in..."
Maybe they need to put a more localized "Siri" on the devices thus avoiding much of the traffic and possible data breaches.
Bingo... companies, Apple included, will always have software and security problems... no company *wants* security breaches.. that’s not the issue here.
The issue is a company’s privacy policy and practices on personal data.
Yes, encrypted.
So what?
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The iCloud data is Encrypted before it hits Google and Amazon's Servers.