Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple's Report on Government Information Requests Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 04:59:53 +1100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <061120130840230696%foo@bar.com> <061120131050133286%foo@bar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ZeXqI28bY2xbamiBqj6KIQ6oNogsNn4HPDY/6me8NK1UkAcME= Cancel-Lock: sha1:VPRasXhkI5m5e5Y+NtEwJQhX7ec= In-Reply-To: <061120131050133286%foo@bar.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:28732 comp.sys.mac.system:51927 Michelle Steiner wrote > Doc O'Leary wrote >> Michelle Steiner wrote >>> Quite interesting. Apple is on the side of privacy. >> Apple is on the side of Apple. If they were truly on the side >> of privacy, they wouldn't be trying to force iCloud on people. >> Because, you know, the first step in protecting your customer's >> private information is to not collect it in the first place. > What makes you think that Apple is collecting > private information on people? They obviously are when you can only do some things using icloud that used to be possible by usb and local wifi when they know they get lots of requests by govt for that private information. They could allow you to synch via usb or local wifi and tell people that care about the privacy of their private information to do it that way if they care.