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Google CEO Finally Chimes In On FBI Encryption Case, Says He Agrees With Apple (gizmodo.com)

Posted by whipslash on from the not-so-fast-snowden dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After Tim Cook's eloquent letter explaining why Apple wouldn't help the FBI get encrypted data from the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, the internet looked to Google to take a similar stand. Now Google CEO Sundar Pichai has posted five tweets that seem to show he agrees with Cook.
Edward Snowden had previously suggested that Google's silence meant Google had "picked a side, but it's not the public's."

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  1. Google copies Apple ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google copies Apple, what a surprise :-)

    1. Re:Google copies Apple ... by perpenso · · Score: 4, Funny

      Google copies Apple, what a surprise :-)

      And as usual they don't get it quite right.

    2. Re:Google copies Apple ... by Phreakiture · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure. They forgot to make it impossible to change the battery, expand the storage, etc.

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  2. Re:Is he really agreeing? by sinij · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google and privacy are not on speaking terms.

  3. Re:Is he really agreeing? by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Google is still reading Privacy's emails.

  4. Google already cooperates with the FBI ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google already cooperates with the FBI. When gmail's targeted advertising scanning system detects terroristic keywords in your email it displays an ad from the FBI.

  5. Re:Is he really agreeing? by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a pitch fork manufacturer in a a black and white world, you insensitive clod!

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