On the occasion of theIAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022, Tim Cook was able to speak about the privacy issues around our mobile devices. The CEO of Apple, in office for more than ten years now, constantly emphasizes that the protection of personal data is a fundamental right: he therefore seemed ideally suited to intervene on the subject.
During the conference, the leader notably highlighted the “regulations” which could ultimately compromise the security of iPhone users by allowing them to install apps from unknown sources. Understand: which are not scanned by the Apple teams to verify that no virus is hosted there.
Decentralize to rule better
Tim Cook also took the opportunity to point out that Apple collects a minimum of private information about its customers, even ifthe company has already been condemned by the courts following this practice.
One of the keys to analyzing such statistics in the safest way possible, for the CEO, however, is to save them on the targets' mobiles as much as possible. What theiPhoneaccording to him, therefore avoiding bringing together all the profiles within the same data center. With a strategy like this, it is then more difficult for potential hackers to illegally access these files.
To further reassure consumers, Cook also does not hesitate to specify that its mobiles are “encrypted by default“, although flaws in the source code of their operating system are regularly revealed to the public. Researchers specializing in cybersecurity are most often at the origin of these scandals, when they are notdevelopers looking for rewards.
Officials get involved
Among the participants at the Global Privacy Summit, we find in particular Brad Smith (Microsoft), Malcolm Gladwell (journalist atNew Yorker), David Olusoga (filmmaker) or Amy Gajda (author ofSeek and Hide).
Facing them, heavyweights from the legislature to counterbalance the argument, including Lina M. Khan from the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) orDidier Reynders. The European Commissioner for Justice, implicated in corruption cases, is also in charge of applying the GDPR.
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