Instead of users being pawns in the game played by politicians against Apple, Apple could step aside and leave the politicians to deal with users direct.
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Has your blog just ‘joined’ Apple News? Apparently Apple has now opened its aggregation service to all-comers at last.
Our politicians are busy playing unintended consequences again.
Compare the approaches to privacy in medical research with those in commercial marketing.
Much of our data protection and privacy law dates from the last century. Instead of breaking privacy down, politicians should be protecting it better.
For once, Apple’s stand could be broken by forthcoming UK legislation, in the form of the Investigatory Powers Bill.
The brave boys and girls who run Apple support are now on Twitter – and answering questions every 20 seconds or so.
Apple needs to demonstrate that its checks and balances can protect the services on which we now depend.
I cannot remember ever wishing that I did not use Macs, but unless Apple sorts itself out, I will.
Enjoy being a computer owner-user-maintainer while you can: those days are NUMbered.
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