Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
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Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#2Amen. Who the heck wants their own government spying on them? I'd rather be "less safe" whatever that even means. The government works for us, not the other way around.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#3Amen. Who the heck wants their own government spying on them? I'd rather be "less safe" whatever that even means. The government works for us, not the other way around.
> Who the heck wants their own government spying on them?
A depressingly large proportion of the population.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#4Amen. Who the heck wants their own government spying on them? I'd rather be "less safe" whatever that even means. The government works for us, not the other way around.
> Who the heck wants their own government spying on them? A depressingly large proportion of the population.
I believe it's more of an education problem, than of people actually welcoming the intrusions.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#5What's with apple and their super-privacy stance lately? First his letter, and now his interview. Not that I mind it, but I feel like they're expecting something bad to come out soon.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#6What's with apple and their super-privacy stance lately? First his letter, and now his interview. Not that I mind it, but I feel like they're expecting something bad to come out soon.
A business strategy perhaps ? Considering everyone else is in the surveillance-as-a-service monetization model.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#7> If you buy something from the App Store, we do know what you bought from the App Store, obviously. We think customers are fine with that.
Users should also be able to install apps on their iPhones without Apple knowing what they're doing. Personal computing devices shouldn't have artificial walled gardens.
But I agree with him on everything else and think he's a hero for what he's doing.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#8If you are talking about rights, then you're already in trouble. You do not need to talk about rights until someone has the power to violate them. Governments murder people without heeding the power of their rights, human or otherwise, fundamental or otherwise. The only thing that power answers to is power.
The language of rights does not challenge the fundamental structure of the system.
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#9Apple's comments on privacy over the past year have seemed very opportunistic.
>But what they don't want to do, they don't want your email to be read, and then to pick up on keywords in your email and then to use that information to then market you things on a different application that you're using. ...
They don't have the technology/infrastructure to perform machine learning techniques that google employs. So they will say 'we think it's a feature that none of our services interoperate.'
Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'
#10What's with apple and their super-privacy stance lately? First his letter, and now his interview. Not that I mind it, but I feel like they're expecting something bad to come out soon.
Apple is essentially the only major US tech company that doesn't rely heavily on advertising income (and thus on online profiling to target ads effectively), and they've realized that this gives them a moral high horse from which to attack their competitors without actually having to change any of their own habits.