Not particularly. His point isn't that you shouldn't do anything sponsored by a major corporation. It's that this is a privacy conference, and these specific ma

Not particularly. His point isn't that you shouldn't do anything sponsored by a major corporation. It's that this is a privacy conference, and these specific major corporations make their money off of destroying privacy. That's a conflict of interest. Anyway, lately Apple is the big institutional champion for end-to-end encryption, so they might be on the "allowable sponsors" list for a privacy conference.