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Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data
An anonymous reader writes "Not to be left out Apple has released details about government requests for customer data. The company said it received between 4,000-5,000 government requests, affecting as many as 10,000 accounts or devices. From the article: 'The iPad maker said that it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement agencies for customer data from December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, and that 9,000 to 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in the requests. Apple did not state how many of the requests were from the National Security Agency or how many affected accounts or devices may have been tied to any NSA requests.' Facebook and Microsoft released their numbers this weekend."
It's easy to criticize the status quo. It's harder to work on a long-term solution. But the fact is, we won't be able to control the rise in totalitarianism in government if we continue to cede our control of the government itself.
So if we did not want to the Patriot Act to be passed in the first place, according to you it's "silly" to continue being mad that it was passed? And now that the [pacified] public realizes the extent that the unconstitutional law is being used, those who were against the law from the beginning are "silly" to try to capitalize on said realization? If some of us have objected to the law since it was passed, should we not now continue objecting to it, because it would be "silly"? Flawed logic, imo.
Perhaps you meant "those who idly watched as the Patriot Act was passed are silly to be mad about the current events"? Not everyone who posts here "idly watched"...your post makes the incorrect assumption that everyone did -- apparently by the fact that the Patriot Act still remains active. Just because it remains active does not mean that there was a minority of those who were against it.