Apple’s compliance with the Chinese government makes a mockery of its defiance against the American government. Not least because this betrays the fact that Apple is all too willing to sacrifice customer privacy for corporate profit… And if you believe the Chinese government used Apple to protect the privacy of its citizens, your naiveté is matched only by Apple’s hypocrisy.
As it happens, though, Apple merely did what other tech companies [like Google] have done.
(“Apple Defends iPhones as Safe Haven for Terrorists to Plot,” The iPINIONS Journal, February 22, 2016)
But it’s high time the U.S. showed Apple it can act like a police state too; even if only under the direction of a judge.
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