Apple's Cook: We have never allowed g-men access to Apple servers

  • 18 September 2014
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By Richard Chirgwin, 18 Sep 2014
 
Apple has made some amendments to its privacy policy, and has used the occasion to run an open letter from CEO Tim Cook explaining the changes.
Taking a swipe at Google and others, Cook tells the world that since Apple's income is products, not profiles, “we don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t 'monetize' the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you.”
 The point of Apple's data collection, Cook says, is solely product improvement – except in the small case of iAd, and that service “doesn’t get data from Health and Home Kit, Maps, Siri, iMessage, your call history, or any iCloud service like Contacts or Mail, and you can always just opt out altogether.”
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/18/cook_explains_apple_privacy_policy_denies_helping_feds/

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by Lee Munson on September 19, 2014
 
 http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apple-store_ss_170.jpg?w=640Apple has launched a new privacy website to highlight how it handles its users’ privacy as well as government requests for user data.
The website launched with a letter from CEO Tim Cook which - in typical Apple style - is remarkably easy to read, given the often very dry nature of privacy statements.
In his letter, Cook made it clear that Apple views privacy differently to other tech companies - the following comment could apply to several firms including the likes of Facebook and Google.
A few years ago, users of internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.
 
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