Apple CEO: Government needs to step in and regulate privacy

The Blaze ^ | Mike Ciandella

[TBP]

While insisting that he is “not a pro-regulation kind of person,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the free market has failed to provide adequate protections for privacy, and he believes it is time for the government to step in.

Here’s what you need to know During an interview on HBO’s “Vice News Tonight,” which aired on Tuesday, Cook said:

I’m not a pro-regulation kind of person. I believe in the free market deeply. … But I think you have to recognize when the free market doesn’t produce the result that’s great for society. You have to ask yourself: What do we need to do? And I think some level of government regulation is important to come out of that.

Cook did not elaborate on what he thought this regulation might look like. However, he conceded that Congress’s understanding of this topic was “a challenge,” and that tech companies would have to help Congress “come up to speed on what’s possible.”

Privacy, Cook argued, is “one of the most important issues of the 21st century” and “central to liberty.”

[TBP]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?

[Vendome]

Idiot...

[NutsOnYew]

Government needs to step in and regulate privacy

That is a terrifying idea.

[House Atreides]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?
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I think his meaning is that the government needs to do more to regulate/prevent THE INVASIONS OF PRIVACY that many tech companies currently engage in.

[BTerclinger]

Cadillac Commie Cook wants the U.S. to be like China, where he just gave them the keys to Apple's China icloud, effectively sodomizing 130 million Chinese Apple customers, letting their govt read their phones.

All hail our future Chinese masters, say their millionaire/ billionaire underling slave-masters:

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos share a laugh. Tencent CEO Pony Ma [Huateng] stands in between.

According to the official Tencent website, Ma is a deputy to the 5th Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress and serves in the 12th National People’s Congress.

Because of Tencent’s dominance of the social network and instant messaging markets in China, Ma Huateng’ relationship with the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly come under scrutiny... Speaking of censorship at a tech conference in Singapore, Ma was quoted as saying "Lots of people think they can speak out and that they can be irresponsible. I think that's wrong […] We are a great supporter of the government in terms of the information security. We try to have a better management and control of the Internet”."

[kaintucky]

didn’t roe v wade give us the “right to privacy”?

[kevao]

I think you need to read closer what he is saying.

[cpdiii]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?

Absolutely not! Privacy is private and thus if regulated it is no longer private.

It is odd that the Captains of private enterprise such as Cook, Buffet, Gates and the many foundations such as the Ford Foundation are now the left wing liberal elite. One would think people such as they would be the bastions of a free and open society. They are not and the reason is quite simple.

Men and women at the very top want for nothing. They fly in Gulfstream Jets between their homes of great opulence. Their friends are those that shape the world. They attend meetings with each other to chart the destiny of the world as they see fit.

As they want for nothing the only aphrodisiac left is raw power. Thus they gravitate to left to gather this raw power over the world. This is the aphrodisiac of old men and young men alike. The young men also have their ladies of great beauty. The old men also, but they by and large are but window dressing for their ego.

Nothing has changed since we came out of caves thousands of years ago with a club in our hands, with the exception of our ability to kill each other with great efficiency. It is estimated that socialism via communism, nazis, the Chinese revolution, Cambodia etc has killed in excess of 100 million people for political power. Beware the left. They are genocidal.

[a fool in paradise]

how does i-Apple treat privacy when the Chinese Communist government comes knocking?

[a fool in paradise]

So Apple is asking someone to stop them from invading your privacy?

[a fool in paradise]

I thought it was Lawrence v. Texas even though the caller was the jilted (and abused) boyfriend of one of the guys.

[House Atreides]

So Apple is asking someone to stop them from invading your privacy?
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Well, I’ll let you wallow in your ignorance or your smarminess...whichever most accurately reflects your current state.

[dfwgator]

He’s asking the fox to guard the henhouse.

[A strike]

NO, that is not what he means, you are dense.

[mrsmith]

Yes.
That’s an accurate interpretation.
Competitors make big money from selling customer info making it hard for Apple to compete if they don’t.

In general though the cheap technical provision of security and privacy is problematic.

[Swordmaker]

Apple CEO' worried about the privacy abuses from the other Tech Giants, says it may be time for government regulation to assure consumer privacy. BAD IDEA, TIM! The BIG problem is once you grant the government the power to assure privacy, you grant the government the power to define privacy. That may not be OUR idea of privacy. . . and one-size of privacy cannot fit all people, businesses, and situations. Just extend political freedom of speech to the social media platforms. —PING!

Apple CEO has a bad idea Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[golux]

[Swordmaker]

Cadillac Commie Cook wants the U.S. to be like China, where he just gave them the keys to Apple's China icloud, effectively sodomizing 130 million Chinese Apple customers, letting their govt read their phones.

Sigh. No, Apple DID NOT GIVE THE KEYS OF THE CHINESE ICLOUD to the Chinese government.

Apple, like every other such cloud business operating in China is required to have the encryption keys to their Chinese operations stored within the geographic borders of the nation of China. The digital encryption keys to the Apple iCloud are stored at Apple's China headquarters in Beijing, not at any government office.

How many times do I have to squash this Fake News myth???

Is China more restrictive? Of course they are. If you do business there, you follow their laws. . . as does Microsoft when it hands over the entire source code for Windows with every update since Windows 98. Apple does not.

[Swordmaker]

So Apple is asking someone to stop them from invading your privacy?

Apple does not have access to your data, because they don'e have your passcode. Only you do. The limited data Apple has in anonymized. Microsoft and Google have Gigabytes of personalized data on you.

By law you can get a copy of what each has on you. . . Google/Android will send you hundreds of megabytes of personal files on you. Same with Facebook, and Twitter. Apple's files are less than ten megabytes, and are mostly about your iTunes account, repairs, devices, etc. Here's part of a May 2018 report from a USA Today reporter who took advantage of that law:

The zip file I eventually received from Apple was tiny, only 9 megabytes, compared to 243 MB from Google and 881 MB from Facebook. And there's not much there, because Apple says the information is primarily kept on your device, not its servers. The one sentence highlight: a list of my downloads, purchases and repairs, but not my search histories through the Siri personal assistant or the Safari browser.

As you can see there is a huge difference in the amount of data Apple collects from its customers, because that is what they are, Apple's customers, while for the others, the users, or their data is the product they sell!

[Swordmaker]

NO, that is not what he means, you are dense.

No, A strike, it actually is what Cook means. You have to know what he's said before in speeches and testimony before Congress. It IS the invasion of privacy that Apple has been campaigning about that has been the nemesis of users. Apple devices are designed FOR user privacy. Android devices are designed to mine user data to sell because that data is Google's primary product!