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Apple CEO Tim Cook: The VICE News Tonight Interview (HBO)

VICE News · 578.8K views · 2018-10-03 · 8:47

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Overview

A 2018 VICE News Tonight interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, in which he discusses privacy as a core company value, the Facebook breach, and Apple's iCloud arrangement in China.

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Commenters cite it as a primary source for Cook's own words on Apple's privacy stance and on how iCloud data is handled in China.

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Despegar · 2020-01 · Reference

I looked at your other comments so I know you're one of the bad faith FUD peddlers. But for anyone else that didn't click through to the thread I linked, you can hear it from the horse's mouth right here: [VIDEO]

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Despegar · 2019-09 · Reference

Replying to this just for anyone else that reads this later: Tim Cook confirmed this was still the case in this 2018 interview with Vice. [VIDEO]

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vatueil · 2019-09 · Reference

Transcript of relevant section: [VIDEO] > VICE News: In terms of privacy as a human right, does that apply to how you do business in China? > Apple CEO Tim Cook: It absolutely does. Encryption for us is the same in every country in the world. We don't design encryption for, you know, for the US and do it differently everywhere else. It's the same. And so to send a message in China, it's encrypted. I can't produce the content. I can't produce it in the United States either. If you lock your phone in China, I can't open it. > The thing in China that some people have confused is certain countries, and China's one of them, has a requirement that data from local citizens has to be kept in China. We worked with a Chinese company to provide iCloud. But the keys, which are- which is the "key" so to speak, pardon the pun, are ours. > VICE: But haven't they moved to China, meaning it's much easier for the Chinese government to get to them? > Cook: No, I wouldn't- I wouldn't get caught up in the, uh, "where's the location" of it. I mean, we have servers located in many different countries in the world. It's- they're not easier to get data, uh, from being in one country versus the next. The key question is, how does the encryption process work, and who owns the keys if anyone. In most cases for us, you and the receiver own the keys. VICE interviews are not held under penalty of perjury, of course, but we may give Apple's CEO the benefit of the doubt. As Mr. Cook acknowledges, Apple did m

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