Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
If you're interested in Apple & privacy, you should listen to Polymatter's videos on Apple, in particular <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLHuhOTnaI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLHuhOTnaI</a> - it really helped me understand their whole strategy around privacy and PR "stunts" like this. From that video:<p>"Google embraces gathering your data, arguing you shouldn't just tolerate them using your data, you should want it - first, because giving your phone more information makes it more useful. And second, because all this data [...] makes this services cheaper and more accessible to, say, people in poverty. [...] Apple, meanwhile, rejects the whole concept.  Tim Cook argues that’s a fake trade-off designed to justify a business model where  you are the product, not the customer.
 Not only does your iPhone not need your data to be useful, it says, it doesn’t even want it. For Apple, storing your information is only a liability.
 Now, whether you buy that logic or not, you have to stop and admire its genius.
 Because, if Google says your data is what allows it to sell cheaper products, then Apple can argue it’s higher prices are a feature.
 You should feel good paying more for an iPhone, because it’s proof Apple doesn’t need to sell you out to advertisers.  On the other hand, this argument is also harder to explain. While Tim is busy waxing poetic about privacy, Google just points to the price tag - everyone wants to save money.
[...]  Whenever there’s a big hack, Tim Cook will, predictably, do a few interviews about privacy, trying to convince you that Apple’s interests are most aligned with yours.
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