BlackBerry CEO John Chen said he is "disturbed" by Apple's tough approach to encryption and user privacy, warning that the firm's attitude is harmful to society.
Earlier this year, Chen said in response to Apple resisting the government's demands to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters:
"We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good." During BlackBerry's Security Summit in New York this week, Chen made several more comments about Apple's stance on encryption.
"One of our competitors, we call it 'the other fruit company,' has an attitude that it doesn't matter how much it might hurt society, they're not going to help," he said. "I found that disturbing as a citizen. I think BlackBerry, like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility.
If the world is in danger, we should be able to help out." He did say there was a lot of "nonsense" being reported about BlackBerry and its approach to how it handles user information.
"Of course, there need to be clear guidelines. The guidelines we've adopted require legal assets.
A subpoena for certain data. But if you have the data, you should give it to them," he said.
"There's some complete nonsense about what we can and can't do.
People are mad at us that we let the government have the data. It's absolute garbage.
We can't do that."
Chen also warned that mandatory back doors aren't a good idea either, hinting at the impending Investigatory Powers Bill.
"There's proposed legislation in the U.S., and I'm sure it will come to the EU, that every vendor needs to provide some form of a back door.
That is not going to fly at all. It just isn't," he said.
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Surprise surprise, windows ten is full of doors and your name is attached to it.
France: Windows 10 Collects 'Excessive Personal Data', Issues Microsoft With Formal Warning (betanews.com)
France's National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has ordered Microsoft to "stop collecting excessive data and tracking browsing by users without consent," adding that Microsoft must comply with the French Data Protection Act within next three months.
BetaNews reports:
In addition to this, the chair of CNIL has notified Microsoft that it
needs to take "satisfactory measures to ensure the security and
confidentiality of user data."
The notice comes after numerous
complaints about Windows 10, and a series of investigations by French
authorities which revealed a number of failings on Microsoft's part.
Microsoft is accused of not only gathering excessive data about users,
but also irrelevant data.
The CNIL points to Windows 10's telemetry
service which gathers information about the apps users have installed
and how long each is used for.
The complaint is that "these data are not
necessary for the operation of the service."
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