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[hazeii]

Apple are generally considered to be best when it comes to protecting their user's privacy (edit: issues like this aside).

It does make me wonder what the others are doing.

[dastx → hazeii]

No, Apple wants you to think they're the best when it comes to protecting user's privacy.

Don't forget Apple was one of the many companies part of the PRISM program.

[azinman2 → dastx]

Talk to any engineer at Apple and they’ll tell you that privacy is involved with every feature development and pervades every discussion internally. It’s not a facade.

[xvector → azinman2]

Friend used to be a security engineer at Apple and was thoroughly disillusioned with their privacy stance after working there for three years.

[lawnchair_larry → dastx]

If by “part of the PRISM program” you mean “responds to court orders and routinely fights orders that are too broad”, then I suppose that is accurate.

[nojito → dastx]

Only because refusing would have bankrupted them.

The idea that Apple doesn't protect user privacy is absolute nonsense.

[ogurechny → nojito]

Once upon a time, people believed that kings were appointed by God to care about common folk, guide and discipline them. It's fun to see a modern commoner showing the same dedication to a corporate business.

[babypuncher → dastx]

You act like companies had a choice