Tim Cook: You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Get It

Re:Tim Cook: You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Coul... by numair on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:36PM (#18935710)

These sort of replies always show up in these threads. They’re also absolutely, 100% wrong. About as clueless as the classic “less space than a Nomad” line.

Apple isn’t buying your credit and loyalty card transaction history.

Apple isn’t storing plaintext transcripts of your chats, and using access to them as a tool for backroom political deals.

Apple’s former HQ wasn’t turned into Palantir’s HQ.

People need to stop making these sort of comparisons. It doesn’t make you look smart. It makes you seem either insanely pedantic or completely uninformed about what the other companies ARE doing. You can criticize Apple for their pricing model, the uselessness of iTunes, whatever ... Privacy is not one of those options. The closer you are to this actual issue (and I’m pretty damn close to it), the more you know that this is the truth.

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Re:Tim Cook: You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Coul... by lern_too_spel on Thursday January 17, 2019 @08:24PM (#18936270)

As much as you try to deflect, my statement is factually correct about what Apple IS and WAS doing and just one of many reasons why Apple is worse than alternatives for privacy.

> Apple’s former HQ wasn’t turned into Palantir’s HQ.

What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?

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