The Guardian:
Apple’s chief executive has sharply criticised surveillance powers proposed by the British government, warning that allowing spies a backdoor route into citizens’ communications could have “very dire consequences”.
“You can just look around and see all the data breaches that are going on. These things are becoming more frequent,” Cook told the Daily Telegraph. “They can not only result in privacy breaches but also security issues. We believe very strongly in end-to-end encryption and no back doors. We don’t think people want us to read their messages. We don’t feel we have the right to read their emails.
“Any back door is a back door for everyone. Everybody wants to crack down on terrorists. Everybody wants to be secure. The question is how. Opening a back door can have very dire consequences.”
The proposed UK law would require ISPs and phone companies to keep records that would track every website visited for a year. The authorities would not need a warrant to access the data.
The US isn’t far behind, in the sense that our politicians as a group have no concept of technology or the Internet beyond being proud that they know what a “tweet” is. On the other hand, maybe enough of them got embarrassed by the Ashley Madison thing to make them think twice…
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Really?
“The price of freedom is constant vigilance and the willingness to fight back.” Let’s hope, for ALL our sakes, that Tim & Company have the will and wherewithal to do both against whatever our government may have in store, AND against this nefarious British bill. Let’s also hope that Apple is not alone in this resolve.