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Sure. It's maybe a bit unsettling to see a global corporate monopoly telling countries what they're allowed to do, but in this case it's the right thing.
by ramshorns 6y ago
Sure. It's maybe a bit unsettling to see a global corporate monopoly telling countries what they're allowed to do, but in this case it's the right thing.
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- fancyfredbot 6y agoI trust a democratically elected government above a duopoly personally, and I'm not convinced the decision of how far to trade off privacy concerns against public health is one those corporations are competent to make.
- fooey 6y agoYeah, in this case, I think it's clear that if GPS data was attached, user adoption would be ruined. The most important thing is to get absolutely as many people possible using the technology. Besides, for their own selfish reasons, neither Google or Apple want to be so blatantly attached to something that could be so easily abused.
- thelittleone 6y agoOk so devils advocate here. Google and Apple need to advocate privacy for reasons. But they also want to help the government (PRISM example). So they carefully craft a bug that only government knows about and that allows the extraction of location data. If ever discovered it was not intentional. The NSA backdoor at RSA is an example [1]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-nsa-rsa/exclusive-nsa-infiltrated-rsa-security-more-deeply-than-thought-study-idUSBREA2U0TY20140331 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-nsa-rsa/excl...
- Spivak 6y agoI think it’s unsettling that were so used to companies and people with actual power doing fuck all to stand up to government abuses that it’s weird when it actually happens.
- rootusrootus 6y agoApple makes the news periodically for telling the gov't to piss off.