Cook also says Apple will set a record for sales of the Apple Watch, talked about India as the biggest and newest market for the company, and talked about the virtues and importance of unbreakable encryption without any backdoors.
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Along with Google, Microsoft and others, Apple handled a huge share of communications globally.
Cook told The Telegraph that he “wouldn’t mind putting something adjacent to the Watch through” FDA testing. Warning that “any backdoor is a backdoor for everyone”, Cook once again said he believes end-to-end encryption is the best way to protect its customers’ privacy.
Named the Investigatory Powers Bill, it’s under consideration by the United Kingdom government now, so why is Tim Cook involved?
People can now use the “tap and go” technology for any transaction under £30, making it more likely to be used in restaurants and shops as well as cafes and newsagents. “These things are becoming more frequent”, Cook told the paper. “As part of those efforts, we are actively engaged with private companies to ensure they understand the public safety and national security risks that result from malicious actors’ use of their encrypted products and services”.
Speaking about May’s plans in an interview with the Telegraph, Cook said that any moves by the State to circumvent encryption or insert backdoors can only lead to problems.
While the company may not plan to make the Apple Watch FDA-approved, Cook touted the health features that its new wearable does have: namely its heart rate and activity tracking sensors. Everybody wants to be secure.
So, while tech giants won’t be prevented from implementing online security measures, the encryption must be breakable so that intelligence agencies can access the information of people suspected of wrongdoing. We don’t think people want us to read their messages. “Opening a back door can have dire consequences”. He argued that by doing this, “the people that you hurt are not the folks that want to do bad things”.
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He said it would be wrong for the United Kingdom government’s latest super-spy bid – the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, which landed in Parliament last week – to weaken cryptography. “We do not feel we’ve got the fitting to learn their emails”, he added. “They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones…[and, as another use] if you sketch, then it’s unbelievable…you don’t want to use a [paper] pad anymore”.
