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Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy
- minthd 11y agoDoesn't Apple collect searches [1] ? Aren't they planning a Google Now like service[2] ? [1]http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/10/20/003257/if-youre-connected-apple-collects-your-data http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/10/20/003257/if-youre-con... [2]http://www.imore.com/apple-said-be-taking-google-now-upcoming-service-codenamed-proactive http://www.imore.com/apple-said-be-taking-google-now-upcomin...
- serve_yay 11y ago:|
- brazzledazzle 11y agoKind of takes the punch out of his digs at Google.
- socceroos 11y agoCorrect. As cynical as it sounds, you cannot and should not trust what a corporation tells you. Even if what they've said is sprinkled with half-truths. They're not out to save you or protect you, they're out to make money off you. They'll position themselves however they can to gain the trust of your dollar.
- snowwrestler 11y agoWhile I think there will be plenty of eye-rolling at the obvious digs at Google, I'm pleased to see such strong push-back against the government arguments for weakening or punching holes in encryption.
- mark_l_watson 11y agoI have relatively high levels of trust for Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft. I think that their business models stress relative privacy and they would be foolish to give up that competitive advantage. I am a huge fan of Google services, but I use them carefully: I use fastmail for primary email, not gmail; I use Chrome for all interactions with Google properties; I use Firefox for all normal web browsing with tight restrictions, including deleting all cookies each time I quit Firefox. One area where Apple is a little weak is in web services, but they are improving. If they combined the best features of Office 365, Dropbox, and quality search without hoovering up user information then they would be very compelling to me.