Natasha Lomas reports:
At a Senate hearing this week in which US lawmakers quizzed tech giants on how they should go about drawing up comprehensive Federal consumer privacy protection legislation, Apple’s VP of software technology described privacy as a “core value” for the company.
“We want your device to know everything about you but we don’t think we should,” Bud Tribble told them in his opening remarks.
Facebook was not at the commerce committee hearing which, as well as Apple, included reps from Amazon, AT&T, Charter Communications, Google and Twitter.
But the company could hardly have made such a claim had it been in the room, given that its business is based on trying to know everything about you in order to dart you with ads.
You could say Facebook has ‘hostility to privacy‘ as a core value.
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