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I thought the u.s.a. Had treaties and other diplomatic accords to keep us from having to put up defenses against allies? What are the reporters and press missing in these stories about NSO?

2morrow said:

termsofuse said:

I thought congress wanted the App Store to be a free for all.

They seem to want it both ways. Open App Store to competition but lock it down so people won’t get scammed. I assume a fine will come down with this. It’s all a way to get extra money out of big tech companies. 

Whats wrong with Apple and Google just doing proper due diligence on the apps they do allow on their platforms? Google is the worst - they seem to let any old piece of crapola to be put up on theirs… at least Apple gives appearance to have some quality control… but in this case they dropped the ball big time… a proper review would have likely identified this (or any app) as being the scam crypto (anything) has always been… one quick way would be see if you can actually get a real currency out of it in exchange for a crypto token/coin… 

Rgardless, even the biggest of the biggest are scam operators… namely we are even seeing the ones promoted and propped up by the main stream next greater fool recruiting agencies, such as CNBC and others, come under scrutiny… like coinbase… how many of these scam operators have to collapse before we see people get arrested and go to jail? Oh, thats right… they don’t put the financial crooks in jail - they give them consulting talking head pundit jobs at these financial networks… right? 

danox said:

So you missed the Boat? And are sitting on the sidelines driving for Uber….

Me, miss a boat? Not unless you consider me having not fallen for an obvious scam, as missing that boat… But, by the tone of that question back to me, i presume you were one of those who got recruited into the next batch of greater fools to allow others to escape the scheme? How did that work out for ya?

rob53 said:

I’m happy Apple is continuing the fight for privacy while governments continue to try and get rid of it. Would be nice if consumers had a voice in all these government (worldwide) attacks on our products and security. Voting doesn’t seem to help one bit. 

First of all - None of it helps when you’re complicit with the collection of the data in the fist place. Apple has willingly provided back doors to its products for years, particularly to third parties such as the cell service providers, where then, these same entities you mention above have free access to “your data and activity”. Remember the Snowden files that ended up on Wikileaks and still to this day why a journalist named Assange sits in jail rotting… because he exposed all of this,,, Apple included?

Second - this kind of thing is of no help to protecting the data when its in transit going from point a to point b across the internet… which is where most data is being grabbed… and by you guessed it - the telecom service providers…

So in my view… a lot of this is for PR purposes and to try and make people believe Apple is mr privacy protector, when they really are not, in the literal sense… There is not privacy with things digital, and the brilliant thing is, those who are profiling you from your data  have convinced everyone to give them your data for free for doing nothing. Those free apps you get, or services you use… they aren’t free… they are selling people your personal info so you can be tracked, monitored, profiled, watched, 24/7…