Last Monday night, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the 2015 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) about the importance of currently defending data privacy, stating that weak data encryption harms data users. legal users. These statements came in response to the application of the law imposed by the United States Department of Justice to favor the weakening of data encryption to give access to different back doors where the government could access private communications and other data
“We have always had a deep respect for law enforcement and we work together with the government in many areas, but on this particular point we do not agree […] Weak encryption only endangers the privacy of the people who use the system and information technologies in the right way, ultimately have a negative effect on our rights reflected in the First Amendment undermining the founding principles of our country, "said the CEO of Apple.
In addition he also pointed out that security and privacy must be in balance And they should be given equal attention and equal importance, according to Tim Cook:
We must provide both security and privacy in equal measure. We believe that people have a fundamental right to privacy. The American people demand it, the Constitution supports it, and it is morally right.
He also criticized the emergence of "free" services that also undermine privacy by promising to not suppose any economic cost to the user but who ends up paying it with the transfer of their data to third parties to create personalized advertising with which they will be continuously bombarded.
We think that the customer should be in control of their own information […] These so-called free services may be eye-catching, but I don't think it's worth having their email, their search history, and now even their personal photos taken and sold for heaven knows what advertising purpose. We firmly believe that one day customers will find out how this works.
The last point seems to be a direct response to Google Photos, a photo storage service, unlimited and sold to the user as free, that was announced last week at Google I / O.