| ▲ | Schiendelman 7 hours ago |
| Apple isn't on the evil list, aside from the kowtowing every powerful leader must do not to have their business attacked. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Apple isn't on the evil list Yeah, Tim Apple handing over a 24-karat gold plaque to the sitting president is completely normal behavior for CEOs to engage in, and not at all about just making as much money as possible. He had to do that, otherwise Apple as a company would disappear tomorrow. They're just trying to survive. |
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| ▲ | ambicapter 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Unless you're going to demonstrate that handing over a golden plaque implies handing over privacy data to government agencies, I'm going to prefer the former over the latter. | | |
| ▲ | somenameforme 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Apple has already been outed as one of the participating companies in PRISM. [1] So that privacy boat has long since sailed. The public legal wrangling is likely just a mutually beneficial facade. PRISM is almost certainly illegal, but nobody can legally challenge it because the data provided from it is never directly used. Law enforcement engage in parallel construction [2] where they obtain the same evidence in a different way. So nobody can prove they were harmed by PRISM, and thus all challenges against it get tossed for lack of standing. It's very dumb. But in any case the legal battles work as nice PR for Apple (see how much we care about privacy) and also as a great scenario for the government because any battles they win are domains where they can now legally use information directly to the courts and sidestep the parallel construction. That also takes the burden off of Apple PR in giving that information up because it can be framed as the courts and government forcing them, rather than them collaborating in mass data collection. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction |
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| ▲ | brookst 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don’t like that we’ve gotten to a place where presumably serious people think that giving a token prize to a narcissist is the same thing as engaging in massive surveillance of the entire population. | | |
| ▲ | wredcoll 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If you or I had complete knowledge of all of apple's activities, this would be a more relevant point. Instead we have to make judgements based on what limited information we possess and sucking up to trump is a real bad sign for things like caring about privacy/liberty/safety | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > presumably serious people think that giving a token prize to a narcissist Unfortunately, I think reality is much worse than you seem to be under the impression of. Voter suppression and military violence against your own population isn't "narcissism", it's the introduction of authoritarianism. The flagrant narcissism is a symptom of that, not the actual issue. |
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| ▲ | anonym29 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Apple was a PRISM partner. They share just as much with the NSA as Microsoft and Google. |
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| ▲ | gruez 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | >They share just as much with the NSA as Microsoft and Google. For something like icloud vs gmail/gdrive, they're approximately the same, but that doesn't mean "they share just as much [...] as Microsoft and Google. If they never collected data in the first place, they don't have to share with NSA. The most obvious would be for location data, which apple keeps on-device and google did not (although they did switch to on device a few years ago). | |
| ▲ | mrcwinn 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Remember when Apple PR spent a bunch of time putting Tim Cook alongside images of RFK? Civil rights hero! That campaign wouldn’t land these days. | | |
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