> Apple has done its best to secure customer privacy not only from bad actors and the government
Apple's marketing people would like you to believe that. In actual fact, only Apple has handed over the data of its iCloud and iMessage users wholesale to the Chinese government. Not Facebook. Not Google.
> Do I think Google would look out for me like that?
Google has done this repeatedly according to its transparency reports. The only difference is that Apple lied to its customers that it was "not technically feasible" to comply with data requests and then silently removed that claim after the FBI showed that to be false.
If you want more lies that magically disappear, Apple is more than happy to comply. More recently, Tim Cook posted, “We have also never allowed access to our servers.
“And we never will.”
That's gone too after the China collaboration, with "our servers" replaced by "Apple servers." Maybe technically the servers that Apple set up in China are not "Apple servers" and instead Guizhou servers, but that is not a useful distinction to the users whose data is now freely accessible by the CPC, and so Apple deceives its users with a wording change without any announcement of policy change or any apologies.
Apple's marketing people would like you to believe that. In actual fact, only Apple has handed over the data of its iCloud and iMessage users wholesale to the Chinese government. Not Facebook. Not Google.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
> Do I think Google would look out for me like that?
Google has done this repeatedly according to its transparency reports. The only difference is that Apple lied to its customers that it was "not technically feasible" to comply with data requests and then silently removed that claim after the FBI showed that to be false.
https://slate.com/technology/2014/09/if-you-use-a-passcode-i...
If you want more lies that magically disappear, Apple is more than happy to comply. More recently, Tim Cook posted, “We have also never allowed access to our servers.
“And we never will.”
That's gone too after the China collaboration, with "our servers" replaced by "Apple servers." Maybe technically the servers that Apple set up in China are not "Apple servers" and instead Guizhou servers, but that is not a useful distinction to the users whose data is now freely accessible by the CPC, and so Apple deceives its users with a wording change without any announcement of policy change or any apologies.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Battle-with-FBI-rev...