AfterTim Cook ’s eloquent letterexplaining why Applewouldn’t help the FBIget encrypted data point from the San Bernardino shooter ’s iPhone , the net looked to Google to take a similar standstill . Now Google CEO Sundar Pichai has posted five tweets that seem to show he match with Cook .
Edward Snowden chimed in among the many voices online today that urged Google to speak up :
Today would be the perfect day for Sundar Pichai ( Google , CEO ) to back up Tim Cook ( Apple , CEO ) .
— Jeremiah Grossman ( @jeremiahg)February 17 , 2016
This is the most important tech cause in a decade . Silence means@googlepicked a side , but it ’s not the public’s.https://t.co / mi5irJcr25
— Edward Snowden ( @Snowden)February 17 , 2016
The call is for more than just skilful vibes between similar corporations . Cook has always exact that Apple does n’t desire its user ’ data . As he told Charlie Rose in 2014 : “ We ’re not reading your email . We ’re not read your iMessage . If the government activity laid a subpoena on us to get your iMessage , we ca n’t provide it . It ’s write in code and we do n’t have the cay . ”
But it ’s actually a bigger trade for Google to come forth and speak out about this . Android is exposed - source , for one , but Google is also based on a patronage model of collecting data from its exploiter .
Here ’s what Pichai posted :
1/5 Important postal service by@tim_cook . Forcing company to enable hacking could compromise users ’ privateness
— Sundar Pichai ( @sundarpichai)February 17 , 2016
2/5 We hump that law enforcement and intelligence agency present significant challenge in protecting the public against offense and terrorist act
3/5 We make safe products to keep your information safe and we give law enforcement access to data based on valid effectual orders
4/5 But that ’s whole different than involve troupe to enable hacking of customer devices & data . Could be a troubling precedent
5/5 search forward to a thoughtful and open discussion on this important issue
While that ’s not quite as emphatic as Cook ’s statement , I believe we can assume they ’re in this together — at least in the sense that the FBI is asking too much .
AP Photo / Altaf Qadri
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