If you want your data to be above government surveillance, use things like strong encryption. And even then hope that the NSA hasn't broken that encryption very easily in ways that you don't know about yet. The governance problem here is that we have six or seven giant companies that can make unilateral decisions with enormous social impact and no way of influencing those decisions.
- Pre-show: Marco files a verbal Radar for Apple Music
- Follow-up:
- Apple’s New Child Safety Features
#askatp
- What’s our current thoughts on accelerating the heat death of the universe cryptocurrency (via Lalo Vargas)
- Is there any way to limit Messages’ size on disk? (via Richie Aharonian)
- What camera/lens should I rent for a Disney World trip? (via Andrew Nelson)
- Post-show: Some more camera banter
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