As we mentioned earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook is in attendance at the White House Summit on cybersecurity today at Stanford University where he’s expected to discuss Apple, privacy, and security. Notably, Tim Cook is the only technology company chief executive participating in the event with the White House as CEOs at Facebook, Yahoo, and Google each declined deciding to send lower-level staff instead. Other CEOs in attendance include the heads of Apple Pay partners Bank of America and Visa as well as the chief executive officer of AIG. You can view a stream of the event below:
While the summit has already kicked off with a live video stream available below, President Obama is expected to speak around 11:20 am PST/2:20 pm EST. Earlier today the White House announced an executive order to address issues like the massive Sony hack from North Korea late last year.
The action is intended in part to help companies and the government share information to prevent future attacks. In the past, Apple and Tim Cook have taken a firm stance on protecting customer privacy despite facing its own security issues like last year’s celebrity nude photo leak linked to iCloud.
Most recently, various government leaders have complained of the level of smartphone encryption implemented by companies like Apple and Google while Cook has used user privacy policies as a selling point for it products.
You can catch Cook’s remarks below now:
[youtube http://youtu.be/KlTo9hFAFXs?t=2h23m25s]
#CyberSummit Apple CEO Tim Cook on stage with no real intro "Thank you for that warm introduction," he quips
— michellequinn (@michellequinn) February 13, 2015
– Cook using frequently cited line about Apple selling products, not user information
– Cook says Apple has a security operations team monitoring their systems 24/7
– Despite FBI pushback, Cook says at summit that Apple is committed to encryption
– Cook says Apple has goal of running company on 100% renewable energy
– Cook describes future where government identification can be stored digitally and securely
https://twitter.com/hannahkuchler/status/566311514143866880
– Cook says Apple Pay will be available for federal government transactions in September
"Beginning in September, Apple Pay will be available for transactions with the federal government." #CyberSummit
— The Dish Daily (@TheDishDaily) February 13, 2015
Tim Cook announces at Stanford that federal govt will start using Apple Pay for certain transactions–like paying entrance fee at natl parks
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) February 13, 2015
– Cook discussing social issues and equality, says those in positions of responsibilities much protect privacy to protect way of life
https://twitter.com/tim/status/566312485599195136
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LOL
I can’t see the video…
Me either 😞
Pretty good actually. Expected it to be boring as hell
Interesting tidbits here.
Where in the video does Tim talk?
What he does say can’t be emphasizes enough: while organizations like the NSA want to obtain any possible data about you in order to ” protect you from terrorism ” which may be a nobel end, it doesn’t justify the means. The fact is, that we have waved for the sake of convenience our privacy and our very lives have become accessible by people to manipulate us. May it be to ” improve your advertisement experience”, do criminal robberies, instantly estimate your political affiliations and your sexual preferences, everything is there like an open book. Because we’re by nature greedy Ana are not really motivated to pay for information services, companies like Facebook and Google have to generate their income by selling your data. That’s not necessarily morally wrong and in a small scale appears to be a win-win situation. But sadly, from this apparent tiny tidbits of information evolves a complex personal profile that makes you extremely vulnerable. You may say, yes but not me because I use firewalls, erase cookies, use secure connections, VPNs as standard means of connecting eso. And what do we find? A person that is instantly identified as paranoid or someone who apparently needs to hide something otherwise there wouldn’t be such a big discrepancy between educational level, us of technology and lack of available data. So you likely find yourself in an NSA data pool of suspicious minds. Tim Cook is under high pressure from the government to provide a backdoor into their encryption so that “You can be protected from terrorists, and you aid America I the defense of freedom”! Expect this kind of logic especially from republican representatives. He is trying to warn us of the greatest change in the developed world, we are about to give up our privacy and freedom. It is an ironic paradox that the self proclaimed “land of the Free” is the nation that is willingly and astonishingly uncritically leading this process. If we give in to that demand, sad as it may sound, than the terrorists have won. They did not only kill thousands of Americans, worse , they succeeded converting a formerly free country in a bunch of predictable, easily manipulated and to be explored group of consumers. The big brother from 1984 appears to be a child book compared to cruel reality.