Is privacy really dead, as Silicon Valley luminaries such as Mark Zuckerberg have previously declared? “I don’t think there’s been absolute privacy in the history of mankind,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Unlike the NSA techniques revealed by Snowden, the CIA appears to favour a more targeted approach: less dragnet, more spearfishing. American citizens should not be lulled into a false sense of security that the CIA only targets foreign nationals. “Apple believes deeply that people in the United States and around the world deserve data protection, security and privacy.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2017 11:01 UTC