Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims

Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:23PM (#26040153)

Tim Cook: As reported by TechCrunch, he said: "I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be."

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:34PM (#26040281)

Apparently for Apple, privacy is moral in the US but not in China. Hahahahahahaha!

Also not really privacy since your device is backed up to Apple’s servers where they can conveniently hand them over to the US government. That’s right. If you are a citizen of say Germany, does the US government have access to your data?

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by onethought on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:48PM (#26041651)

What do they do in China that is different to the US?

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:37PM (#26042109)

They segregate Chinese data in China and have easy access to it. I wonder if they leave the rest of the world data in the US.

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by onethought on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:22PM (#26042915)

Do they store US data in the US and have easy access to it?

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:14PM (#26043197)

They also are intentionally fuzzy with Americans. Your privacy is important they say. They say that they will fight against government to protect your privacy. What is more important is that they don’t tell you. Your data is backed up onto Apple’s servers and Apple has the key. What I read is that Apple got pushback from the FBI. Don’t hear about the FBI suing Apple for access anymore. Wonder why? Maybe they have all the access they want while Apple can continue to brand itself the privacy moralists. Hahahahaha!

https://www.sott.net/article/427853-Backdoored-backup-FBI-ba...

The difference is that in the US, Apple pretends to be for privacy whereas in China there are no such pretensions. Also because of greater reach, US companies have access to far more countries and people who are not at all protected by US laws.

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:08PM (#26043163)

Do they store German data in the US and have easy access to it?

Google stored it everyone’s data everywhere and somehow the US had access to ALL of it unencrypted.

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:22PM (#26040145)

https://www.cnet.com/news/tim-cook-says-privacy-is-an-issue-...

Tim Cook says privacy is an issue of morality

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:32PM (#26040254)

Cook, though, presented the issue in deeply political terms. He said: "We believe that people have a fundamental right to privacy. The American people demand it, the constitution demands it, morality demands it."

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by babesh on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:20PM (#26040136)

https://youtu.be/x3nFe7EpWAY

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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by judge2020 on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:23PM (#26040156)

Your mistake was believing CEOs. The only thing you can count on is the invisible hand of capitalism, and today it requires both:

- operating in (wealthy) oppressive regimes

- denouncing those same oppressive regimes

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