Apple's CEO Tim Cook emphasizes the Importance of Privacy,Encryption and pokes Google and Facebook in speech at Champions of Freedom Event

6/03/2015 , , , , 0 Comments

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Apple CEO Tim Cook was invited at the Champions of Freedom Awards Dinner, which was organized by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington yesterday, where he got the opportunity to give a speech about privacy and encryption, he also jabbed how the way some Silicon Valley companies manage their customers data.

 As reported by our source, In the beginning of the speech, Tim Cook talked about the right of people to privacy:
"Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security," Cook opened. "We can, and we must provide both in equal measure. We believe that people have a fundamental right to privacy. The American people demands it, the constitution demands it, morality demands it."
Tim Cook was very hurtful to see how some 'unnamed' Silicon Valley companies manage their customers data and use it for monetization purposes. Tim Cook didn't mention the name of Facebook and Google specifically but it's very easy to guess their names in the lines:
"We believe the customer should be in control of their own information. You might like these so-called free services, but we don't think they're worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data mined and sold off for god knows what advertising purpose. And we think some day, customers will see this for what it is."
"They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it, We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be." 
 While ending his speech, Tim Cook spoke about encryption, sharing the company's views on the topic of odds with the government:
"We think this is incredibly dangerous. We've been offering encryption tools in our products for years, and we're going to stay on that path. We think it's a critical feature for our customers who want to keep their data secure. For years we've offered encryption services like iMessage and FaceTime because we believe the contents of your text messages and your video chats is none of our business."
Judging him by his efforts,Tim Cook appears to be very serious about its users privacy and keeping their data secure.

Source :Tech Crunch, The Verge 

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