Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

APPLE'S TIM COOK REBUKES FACEBOOK/ZUCKERBERG: PRIVACY A 'HUMAN RIGHT'





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Friday, January 19, 2018

More good #TaxReform & @Apple news ---> employees receive $2,500 bonuses after new #TaxCutsandJobsAct







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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Wrongthink has no place in Silicon Valley..


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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Silicon Valley tech titans visit White House











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Friday, July 1, 2016

Elizabeth Warren Shrieks: Successful Companies Like Apple “Snuff Out Competition” And “Threaten Our Democracy”…

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Monday, June 20, 2016

Under Tim Cook, Apple has gone from an extraordinary company to an ordinary one





Instapundit: "Under Tim Cook, Apple has gone from an extraordinary company to an ordinary one. My guess is he realizes that, and is doubling down on the social-justice stuff as a distraction."
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Obama at #SXSW: 'You're phones shouldn't be off limits...'

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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Apple tells court it shouldn't have to unlock #iPhone connected to San Bernadino shooting







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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Here’s the REAL reason the FBI needs Apple’s help in cracking terrorist’s iPhone





To give some background information, San Bernardino killer Syed Farook’s iPhone (which the FBI wants to access) is password-protected, and Apple claims that creating a backdoor to the iPhone could be disastrous in the wrong hands. Others think this is all one big PR stunt for the company.

Regardless of Apple’s intentions, the FBI wouldn’t need their help if it wasn’t for the government’s own incompetency. Just get a load of what The Gateway Pundit reported:
Apple responded on Friday evening saying the FBI changed the password to Farook’s phone and then forgot it.
ABC has more:
The password for the San Bernardino shooter’s iCloud account associated with his iPhone was reset hours after authorities took possession of the device.

The Justice Department acknowledged in its court filing that the password of Syed Farook’s iCloud account had been reset. The filing states, “the owner [San Bernardino County Department of Public Health], in an attempt to gain access to some information in the hours after the attack, was able to reset the password remotely, but that had the effect of eliminating the possibility of an auto-backup.”

Apple could have recovered information from the iPhone had the iCloud password not been reset, the company said. If the phone was taken to a location where it recognized the Wi-Fi network, such as the San Bernardino shooters’ home, it could have been backed up to the cloud, Apple suggested.




















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Monday, June 8, 2015

Apple’s Tim Cook Blasts Silicon Valley Firms for Selling Off Privacy



Apple CEO Tim Cook has made some of his strongest comments to date on digital privacy and security.

Speaking remotely on Monday night as he accepted the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center’s (EPIC) Freedom Award, Cook criticized other Silicon Valley companies that mine users’ data to target advertising and make money. The comments seemed to be directed at tech giants like Facebook and Google, which are known for monetizing user data....

Cook then discussed encryption and how all levels of law enforcement are trying to get tech companies to provide the “master key” into their products and give them access to consumers’ data.

“We think this is incredibly dangerous,” he said. “If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.”

Cook added, “We’ve been offering encryption tools in our products for years, and we’re going to stay on that path. We think it’s a critical feature for our customers who want to keep their data secure.”
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

The grilling of Apple is best understood as a shakedown by politicians upset with Apple for not playing the Washington game that yields contributions, power, and personal wealth for congressmen and their aides.

◼ Apple becomes latest target of the Beltway Shakedown - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner @TPCarney

Apple doesn't have a political action committee to fund incumbents' re-elections. Apple doesn't hire many congressional staff or any former congressmen as lobbyists. Apple mostly minds its own business -- and how does that help the political class?

...The thing to watch now: Does Apple make peace with Washington? Does it start a PAC? Does it hire the Podesta Group and employ Levin's aides?

Or will Apple try to stand up to the Beltway Shakedown.



◼ Rand Paul blasts Congress for attacking Apple over taxes - RT

Sen. Rand Paul is outraged that Congress held a hearing to “bully one of America’s greatest success stories.” The Kentucky lawmaker believes Apple was unfairly targeted for trying to minimize its taxes, and that the company is owed an apology.

“It’s absurd for Congress to vilify businesses like Apply for wanting to minimize their tax code just like every other American rightly does,” Paul wrote on his Twitter account after the hearing.

“If you want to chase companies like Apple away, continue to vilify them,” he wrote in a separate Tweet. “Congress should be giving Apple an award today.”

...“Tell me one of these politicians up here who doesn’t minimize their taxes,” Paul told the committee. “Tell me what Apple’s done that’s illegal… I’m offended by the spectacle of dragging in American companies for doing something that isn’t illegal.”

Paul also said that “if anyone should be on trial, it should be Congress.”

...Paul continued to stand by his beliefs, blaming Congress for creating a “bizarre and byzantine” tax code that created the mess and going after an American job provider that employs 600,000 people.

◼ Rand Paul Goes Nuclear on "Spectacle" Hearing on Apple's Taxes - Kevin Glass/Townhall
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