[Swordmaker]

Why is it Apple that is taking such a prominent stance ahead of all other tech companies on protecting consumer privacy? TidBits' Rich Mogull takes on that question, concluding that Apple is uniquely positioned to champion the consumers' privacy over all other tech companies because of its product line and business model.

"Apple is nearly unique among technology leaders in that it's high profile, has revenue lines that don't rely on compromising privacy, and sells products that are squarely in the crosshairs of the encryption debate. Because of this, Apple comes from a far more defensible position, especially now that the company is dropping its iAd App Network." -- PING!

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Apple's Support of Consumer Privacy. Why?
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[Bobalu]

An offer of sorts was once made as a compromise.

What if we allow the government to restrict the use of hard encryption of such sophistication that it cannot possibly be broken... but the government allows the following.

All digital traffic will be encrypted at a level that the government can break with just modest effort... but with a key length sufficient that it renders it impossible to decrypt even a small fraction of all the digital traffic.

This allows for access to data necessary for national security but does not allow wholesale snooping.

The proposal was rejected very firmly!

Tells you a lot doesn’t it!

Our cell phone communications are virtually unprotected against nation-state level snooping because threats were made to weaken the security of the data. The criterion was that that data must be able to be decrypted in real-time...so the encryption had to be very weak.

[freedumb2003]

Apple is 100% correct on this issue.

[DoughtyOne]

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[DesertRhino]

Because its MORAL?
And I haven’t been an apple guy. but windows 10 and standing firm on encryption is luring me in and I think im on the verge.

[SpaceBar]

Apple doesn’t want to be a team player of Fascist Amerika.

[TEXOKIE]

bfl

[Vermont Lt]

I used to work at a bank.

I loved telling cops and FBI agents to come back with a warrant. 90% of the time we never heard from them again.

I guess they hate paperwork as much as we did.