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Apple's Fight With US Over Privacy Enters a New Round (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on Bloomberg: Apple Inc.'s fight over privacy with the U.S. isn't over yet, even after the government dropped a demand for the company's help in accessing a California shooter's iPhone because someone else found a way to crack it. The U.S. said it'll keep fighting to get the company's help in getting data off a phone in Brooklyn, New York, that belonged to a drug dealer because Apple provided assistance in accessing such devices earlier. In a court filing Friday, the government said it's going ahead with an appeal of a judge's order denying its request for Apple's help. The battle between the world's most valuable tech company and the U.S. over encryption and data privacy has sparked a national debate, with dozens of companies and organizations siding with Apple, while law enforcement has generally taken the government's side.
Why do we never hear stories about Google fighting the FBI to protect Android users' privacy and right to encryption? Is it because Google is complacent with the government, or is it because Android phones are so easy to crack that the FBI doesn't even bother to ask?
Because android phones are ridiculously easy to break into without any help.
google does not, and never had (and likely never will) stand for 'privacy' or security.
apple can con us into thinking that they care about this (and in many ways, they really do) - but google makes no money from the concept of user privacy. its laughable once you think about it. if google seriously tried to tell us NOW that they care about our privacy, we'd have a great big laugh. maybe a year after they were founded and many of us believe the 'do no evil' motto; but now, its 100% eroded and we see the emperor and his lack of clothing.
apple still has some semblance of user privacy as their selling point.
who else does?
more importantly, who else is RICH ENOUGH to withstand the economic pressure that the government would inflict on any company less than apple's level of might, who dares deny papa his due data.
just like there is no free press anymore in popular media; the media will never call the government out on any hardball issues for fear of being cutoff from future interviews or even worse. they are all running scared and so they 'play ball' with the gov and do as they are told. now, 100% worthless. we have no honest reporting left in popular media, in the US.
this is what happens when you let a corrupt government get so powerful, only the richest company in the world would dare to go against them, and its only because their crown jewels (iphone) is at stake.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
If I write a piece of software that tells you where any person was yesterday at noon JUST for one missing persons case, you would be a fool if you did not think they would come to me every 5 minutes to get info on someone new. Before long it wouldn't just be missing people, it would be anyone who had crossed anyone in power.
We both KNOW thats what would happen. Quit playing otherwise.