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Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email (dailydot.com)
"Please know that Apple will continue its work with law enforcement," reads an email from Apple's vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, who reports directly to CEO Tim Cook, according to new documents this week on WikiLeaks. An anonymous reader writes:
In the email the Apple executive writes "we work closely with authorities to comply with legal requests for data that have helped solve complex crimes. Thousands of times every month, we give governments information about Apple customers and devices, in response to warrants and other forms of legal process. We have a team that responds to those requests 24 hours a day." The email was addressed to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
But the context is missing, and could show a larger attempt to soften Hillary Clinton's position on encryption. While Jackson writes that at Apple, "We share law enforcement's concerns about the threat to citizens," she later writes "Strong encryption does not eliminate Apple's ability to give law enforcement meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data."
The email also compliments Clinton for her "principled and nuanced stance" on encryption in a December debate against Bernie Sanders. Clinton had said "maybe the backdoor is the wrong door, and I understand what Apple and others are saying about that. But I also understand, when a law enforcement official charged with the responsibility of preventing attack...well, if we can't know what someone is planning, we are going to have to rely on the neighbor... I just think there's got to be a way, and I would hope that our tech companies would work with government to figure that out."
But the context is missing, and could show a larger attempt to soften Hillary Clinton's position on encryption. While Jackson writes that at Apple, "We share law enforcement's concerns about the threat to citizens," she later writes "Strong encryption does not eliminate Apple's ability to give law enforcement meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data."
The email also compliments Clinton for her "principled and nuanced stance" on encryption in a December debate against Bernie Sanders. Clinton had said "maybe the backdoor is the wrong door, and I understand what Apple and others are saying about that. But I also understand, when a law enforcement official charged with the responsibility of preventing attack...well, if we can't know what someone is planning, we are going to have to rely on the neighbor... I just think there's got to be a way, and I would hope that our tech companies would work with government to figure that out."
Closed source encryption = faith-based security.
Total surprise! It's why they've made sure they can't get through their own crypto...
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No it isn't good enough. Injecting cynicism isn't a replacement for context.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You sound ridiculous. Do you know what the US Government would do to a corporation that denied assistance to legal warrants from the judicial branch?
Since when does metadata equal them giving up access to the device? Metadata is things like what IP it last checked an iTunes account with or how many IOS devices you have. Yes, you ARE an idiot.
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Re "Do you know what the US Government would do to a corporation .. "
"The One Telco Exec Who Resisted The NSA Has Been Released From 4+ Years In Jail" (Sep 27th 2013)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
This news just adds to the PRISM decryption and other issues that US brands seem to offer assistance with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If its important encrypt well away from any and all Apple products, send the communications.
Anonymity is hard to ensure but at least people can get their privacy back from Apple and the mil/gov.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Because Apple announced this last year. This is only news to the people that don't pay attention in the first place.
"any of a number of other very useful categories of data"
Phone number ?
Customer who bought the phone , their name, and address ?
Credit card used to buy the phone ?
Balance on their iTunes account ?
Last time it was accessed ?
There is a heap of data Apple has which does NOT include any data that is on the phone, and when given a valid warrant, Apple and every other company in the world will comply and hand over that data.
This is entirely consistent with Apples stance on protecting user privacy, by encrypting the end users data with keys they do not have they can not hand anything over, likewise with end to end encryption, Apple is not privy to any chat data and can therefore not hand anything over.
So, you have any PROOF to say otherwise, please give it, paranoid delusion is not proof.
Constitution restriction doesn't apply here as actions are done under authorized warrant for law enforcement. That is explicitly allowed.
*Individual*, very specific, and narrow warrants yes, but not general warrants, they are expressly forbidden.
However, our current crop of politicians, bureaucrats, federal judges, and TLAs seem to be of the opinion that they can violate the US Constitution with impunity by waving a 'national security' flag around. Sorry, but national security, illegal drug traffickers, child porn, copyright infringement, etc etc...none of these trump the Constitution and civil rights.
Government no longer honors the limitations to its' power and scope set out in its' founding document which are the only things which give it legitimacy.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Metadata doesn't exist, all data is data.
The government doesn't really care if you just asked for direction, if you are in contact with someone they don't like you are a criminal.
They even kill people just based on "meta"-data.
Ex-CIA director – We kill people based on metadata
And here is a YouTube clip if you think that veteranstoday just made it up.
Former NSA boss: "We kill people based on metadata"