Apple is Selling You a Phone, Not Civil Liberties https://lawfareblog.com/apple-selling-you-phone-not-civil-liberties
> FBI and Justice Department officials, we think, can be forgiven if they’re a > touch cynical about all of Apple’s elaborate legal argumentation and suspect > that this all just masks what appears to be Apple’s genuine litigating > posture towards the government: You can’t make us do anything, because we are > immensely politically powerful, our CEO is on the phone with the President > regularly, we are too big and way too cool to fail, and people around the > world like us more than they like you. So what about that dead woman in > Louisiana? Sorry, but bringing her killer to justice—and preventing his or > her future violence—just isn’t as important as the data security of our > devices. And about protecting people from ISIS? We’ll help out if it’s not > too much trouble, but don’t ask us—ever—to do something that will make us > look bad to the ACLU, even if there’s a very good legal argument that you can. Oof! Nasty. Very, very, very nasty. It’s quite fun, this. Don’t you find? :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
