Looking to the future, could Apple perhaps become our defacto privacy guardian, protecting its users from unethical data harvesting as governments around the world refuse to act? In a twist of irony, Apple in this case became a defacto privacy regulator, moving swiftly to ban a highly invasive and ethically questionable data harvesting application. Instead of lobbying lawmakers for new privacy rules, what if we lobbied device manufacturers like Apple to establish new policies that ban data harvesting? Would turning to device companies like Apple be a far more effective approach to reigning in the digital world’s rampant data harvesting? A company like Apple leveraging its platform control to ban invasive data harvesting on its devices?

Source: Forbes February 02, 2019 17:03 UTC