60 Minutes Tim Cook defends privacy – Webnews

Tim Cook across the board on defense of privacy , during his recent appearance in the TV show “ 60 Minutes ” a program that allowed viewers to catch even a glimpse of the Cupertino headquarters as well as some of the secrets of the design team of Jonathan Ive. A theme for months returned topical and, albeit indirectly, reinforced last Friday by the CEO of BlackBerry: according to John Chen, the global technological giants be wrong to ensure an excess of indiscriminate privacy at all, because in this way it would also provide the bad guys.

On the occasion of the intervention with Charlie Rose, Cook wanted to return to this issue, as well as the policies of encryption chosen by Apple for its users. With the last two versions of iOS, in fact, it seems to be virtually impossible to identify the users’ personal conversations, even in the presence of a request from the authorities. A fact that in the months has generated some criticism from the police in stars and stripes, but of which the CEO reiterated the need:

If there is a way to access it then someone will find a way to do it. There have been people that have suggested the presence of a backdoor. But the reality is that, if inserissimo a backdoor, this would be for everyone: for the good and for the bad. [...] I do not think the trade-off is between privacy and national security. I think it’s an overly simplistic. We are America. We should have both.

Following the recent bombings in Paris and the shooting at San Bernardino , many have wondered if the privacy guaranteed by large technology does not limit the investigation. An issue also raised by James Comey, the director of ‘ FBI , which fears that the use of these platforms, in which the authorities do not have access, will facilitate the actions of potential criminals. Cook, however, explained that modern devices contain very sensitive information about users , such as health data, the most intimate conversations with partners, financial details and more. For this reason, the only way to protect this data is the use of a encryption strict and indecipherable, to which you can have access only with a specific key, the key that Cupertino does not retain. Moreover, as many analysts have argued in recent months, we can certainly ask the technological giants to become monitoring solutions or in virtual cops, so the conservative choice of Apple is facing so that we can minimize the damage potential for the user.

During the interview, Cook has also touched other issues, such as taxation issues both domestically and internationally. Similarly, he spoke about the use of Chinese labor, specifying how certain tasks servant look to Asia, because at home would lack the necessary skills. Finally, as mentioned earlier, there was space for visiting the Cupertino headquarters, as well as to discuss the progress of the design team led by Jony Ive , in particular in relation to the recent success of Apple aesthetic Watch.