“‘We didn’t elect Tim Cook to protect privacy,’ writes Robert Levine in a Sunday New York Times op-ed piece about the San Bernardino stand-off between Apple and the FBI. ‘That’s what governments are for,'” Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Fortune. “‘But the current choice,’ he concludes, ‘is between a government that doesn’t seem to recognize limits to its own power to access personal information and a technology company that does. It’s a bad choice, but an obvious one. While nobody elected Mr. Cook to protect our privacy, we should be glad someone is.'”
“That’s one point of view,” P.E.D. writes. “It happens to be mine.”
P.E.D. writes, “It’s one shared by eight out of nine U.S. newspaper editorial boards and 71% of my readers.”
MacDailyNews Take: And 94.17% of ours:
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MacDailyNews Take: Who elected Tim Cook? Some guy named Steve.
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