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CEO Apple Tim Cook baru saja menjadi tamu kehormatan dalam event kepemimpinan perusahaan bertajuk Champion of Freedom yang digagas Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) di Washington. Di sana, ia berbicara mengenai keamanan dan privasi pengguna walau dirinya hanya hadir melalui video call.

Seperti dikutip Techcrunch, Tim Cook kepada hadirin mengatakan bahwa Apple menolak setiap gagasan yang mengharuskan penggunanya memperjualbelikan keamanan dan privasinya. Ia percaya bahwa karena setiap orang memiliki hak dasar atas privasi karena setiap orang, konstitusi, dan moral membutuhkannya.

“Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make tradeoffs between privacy and security,” Cook opened. “We can, and we must provide both in equal measure. We believe that people have a fundamental right to privacy. The American people demand it, the constitution demands it, morality demands it.”

“I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information,” said Cook. “They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.”

“We’ve been offering encryption tools in our products for years, and we’re going to stay on that path. We think it’s a critical feature for our customers who want to keep their data secure. For years we’ve offered encryption services like iMessage and FaceTime because we believe the contents of your text messages and your video chats is none of our business. If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.”

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