CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell, the incoming anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook in San Jose, California for an exclusive interview after his keynote address at Monday’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple said it is building more protections for users, including a secure “Sign in with Apple” feature for other apps.
But Cook said Apple isn’t taking a shot at Facebook and Google, two other tech companies that have recently come under fire for their handling of user data.
“You know, we’re not really taking a shot at anybody. We — we focus on the user. And the user wants the ability to go across numerous properties on the web without being under surveillance,” Cook said. “We’re moving privacy protections forward. And I — I actually think it’s a very reasonable request for people to make.”
MacDailyNews Take: One more important quote:
You can imagine an environment where everyone begins to think ‘there’s no privacy’ and if there’s no privacy, your freedom of expression just plummets because now you’re going to be thinking about that everybody’s going to know every single thing you’re doing. It’s just not good for our country; not good for democracy. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, June 3, 2019
For a long time now I’ve refused to use apps and websites that force me to sign in with a social media account and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.
I understand that some apps/sites need to create an account but I don’t believe they need access to my social media accounts to do this. I also believe a lot of developers are not doing this primarily to gain access to our social media accounts but to make it simple for users to signup.
“Sign in with Apple” should be great for both consumers and developers. It makes the signup process simple for users without exposing personal information and it still gives developers an ID they can hang their data on and contact info to keep in touch with the user.
What’s great is Apple is making this a requirement for apps that offer third-party sign-ups so we should see this spread pretty quickly and appear as an additional option to using your social media accounts when signing up.
Know one knows Apple’s true intentions behind this new feature but they have given us another option when it comes to signing up and that can only be a good thing.
If there are many people like me that don’t like signing up with social media accounts then this may have some sort of very minor effect on social networks but I can’t see it changing the status quo.
You are not alone. It’s one of the reasons why I deleted my Facebook account.
They really are moving privacy forward, I have to applaud them, in spite of their odd hardware choices. I think it’s great that there is finally a third, better option. Who had the monopoly again? It wasn’t Apple, those damn buttons from Google and Facebook, and their accompanying spyware have been polluting the internet for years and years.