Apple on government requests for user information
The fourth paragraph is a swift dagger to it’s biggest competitor:
Perhaps most important, our business does not depend on collecting personal data. We have no interest in amassing personal information about our customers. We protect personal conversations by providing end-to-end encryption over iMessage and FaceTime. We do not store location data, Maps searches, or Siri requests in any identifiable form.
It’s paragraphs like that which bring a smile to the face of Ben Brooks:
The best part about the report, and the reason why I am linking to it, is the masterful job Apple does at shaming people/entities/corporations/governments in a public document without outrightly coming out to shame them.
The irony, though, is that by making this announcement, Apple joins the very same companies it is shaming, all calling for more government transparency.
via Macworld