Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo together have a lot of clout. More than the UK government?
privacy
One iPhone to unlock or hundreds? And what about all those expensive UFEDs, which are designed to do just that?
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.
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.
Often branded a consummate logistician without vision or inspiration, Tim Cook has demonstrated that here he can see far further than the politicians.
Which is better – a 6 digit PIN, or a shorter alphanumeric password – for protecting your iPhone?
Dan Guido’s careful analysis provides the answers that we, and law-enforcement, wanted to know.
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