{"id":20872,"date":"2016-02-20T20:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20872"},"modified":"2016-02-20T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:13:05","slug":"nytimes-how-tim-cook-in-iphone-battle-became-a-bulwark-for-digital-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20872","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: How Tim Cook, in iPhone Battle, Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/19\/technology\/how-tim-cook-became-a-bulwark-for-digital-privacy.html?action=click&#038;contentCollection=Opinion&#038;module=RelatedCoverage&#038;region=Marginalia&#038;pgtype=article\">How Tim Cook, in iPhone Battle, Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy<\/a> by Katie Benner and Nicole Perloth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Letters from around the globe began pouring into the inbox of Timothy D. Cook not long after the publication of the first revelations from Edward J. Snowden about mass government surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how much privacy means to us? they asked Apple\u2019s chief executive. Do you understand?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cook did. He was proud that Apple sold physical products \u2014 phones, tablets and laptops \u2014 and did not traffic in the intimate, digital details of its customers\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p>That stance crystallized on Tuesday when Mr. Cook huddled for hours with lawyers and others at Apple\u2019s headquarters to figure out how to respond to a federal court order requiring the company to let the United States government break into the iPhone of one of the gunmen in a San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting. Late Tuesday, Mr. Cook took the fight public with a letter to customers that he personally signed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the U.S. government,\u201d wrote Mr. Cook, 55. \u201cUltimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: How Tim Cook, in iPhone Battle, Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy by Katie Benner and Nicole Perloth: SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Letters from around the globe began pouring into the inbox of Timothy D. Cook not long after the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20873,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20872\/revisions\/20873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}