Tim Cook (Apple leader) speaks out on privacy

[woodb...@gmail.com]

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/apples-tim-cook-makes-blistering-attack-on-the-data-industrial-complex/

Cook argued for a US privacy law to prioritize four things:

data minimization — “the right to have personal data minimized”,
saying companies should “challenge themselves” to de-identify
customer data or not collect it in the first place
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It wouldn't surprise me if Apple is using https://duckduckgo.com
. Duckduckgo doesn't keep track of your searches and they don't
follow you around with advertising. Mr. Cook is saying that
technology needs to be friendly/benign or it will wither away.
Sometimes executives say dumb things, but in this case Mr. Cook
is correct.


Brian
Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again.
https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards

[David Brown]

On 25/10/18 03:23, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/24/apples-tim-cook-makes-blistering-attack-on-the-data-industrial-complex/
>
> Cook argued for a US privacy law to prioritize four things:
>
> data minimization — “the right to have personal data minimized”,
> saying companies should “challenge themselves” to de-identify
> customer data or not collect it in the first place
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It wouldn't surprise me if Apple is using https://duckduckgo.com
> . Duckduckgo doesn't keep track of your searches and they don't
> follow you around with advertising. Mr. Cook is saying that
> technology needs to be friendly/benign or it will wither away.
> Sometimes executives say dumb things, but in this case Mr. Cook
> is correct.

Do you have shares in Duckduckgo or something? This is a C++ group, not
a "please use my favourite search engine" group.

And if Cook is arguing for greater privacy of data and less collection
of private data by US companies, he is a howling hypocrite. Apple
collects everything it can get its claws on - just like Microsoft,
Google, Facebook, and similar companies. (But not, of course, your
beloved Duck company.) If he wants laws to reduce this, it is only
because his company is losing compared to the other big ones, and he
wants help from the law to pull them down.

All these companies - Duckduckgo included - are there to make /money/.
that is their purpose. Duckduckgo does not minimise tracking and
personal information because it is a "nicer" or more "ethical" company -
it does it because taking that stance gives them a different segment of
the search market, and lets them make money. Apple will use Duckduckgo
for searches if they think that will make them more profits, and will
use Google, Bing, Yahoo, or whatever if they think those will be more
profitable.

You make your own choices about which services or companies you want to
use. You can base those choices on reality, or the little fantasy world
you live in. But there is no need to keep advertising them here.