Posted on 01/17/2019 10:17:38 PM PST by blueplum
Full title: Apple CEO Cook calls for U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation in TIME op-ed
“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy—yours, mine, all of ours,” Apple CEO Tim Cook writes in an op-ed for TIME Magazine. “Consumers shouldn’t have to tolerate another year of companies irresponsibly amassing huge user profiles, data breaches that seem out of control and the vanishing ability to control our own digital lives.”
“This problem is solvable—it isn’t too big, too challenging or too late.... {snip}
….“We believe the Federal Trade Commission should establish a data-broker clearinghouse, requiring all data brokers to register, enabling consumers to track the transactions that have bundled and sold their data from place to place, and giving users the power to delete their data on demand...
(Excerpt) Read more at macdailynews.com ...
link to the TIME article cited :
http://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/
Apple desperately seeking legislature to improve market value of it’s “privacy”. sales pitch.
Bad bet by Apple. People don’t care.
BTTT
It’s true. People do not care about privacy. Witness the success of Facebook and other media in which people disclose everything to everyone. The actual behavior of people betrays the claim that privacy is highly valued.
” Apple CEO Tim Cook writes in an op-ed for TIME Magazine. “Consumers shouldn’t have to tolerate another year of companies irresponsibly amassing huge user profiles, data breaches that seem out of control and the vanishing ability to control our own digital lives.” “
I have an idea. How about apple follow this very idea? Show everyone how it’s done.
Mother of All Breaches Exposes 773 Million Emails, 21 Million Passwords
Gizmodo | 01/17/2019 | Victoria Song
Posted on 01/17/2019 9:08:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3720701/posts
[snip] The data was then posted to a popular hacking forum and appears to be an amalgamation of over 2,000 databases. The troubling thing is the databases contain “dehashed” passwords, which means the methods used to scramble those passwords into unreadable strings has been cracked, fully exposing the passwords. [/snip]
The government getting involved is a BAD IDEA. Apple would like to get rid of the competition, and making sure the competition has to register with the government is one way to approach it.
The twenty one intelligence agencies and a bunch of private entities will take whatever information they want—and if Congress tries to do anything about it the holders of the data will release enough dirt to scare Congress back to obedience.
Too late.
Welcome to the Swamp.
That will work as well as the Do Not Call database.
Another law that no one will enforce seems pointless.
We can’t even get them to enforce the “Do Not Call” law.
Let’s put the GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE OF ALL OUR PRIVATE DATA!
What could possibly go wrong?...................
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