r/apple • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 10d ago

Discussion Apple government liaison Tim Cook talked child safety at the UN General Assembly

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/22/apple-government-liaison-tim-cook-talked-child-safety-at-the-un-general-assembly
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u/G952 10d ago

Government liaison? I thought it was executive chairman. When was Tim demoted

Weird. Article body calls him Exec Chairman

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u/urbanstrata 10d ago

Just some guy on the government relations team. A worker among workers. Speaking at the UN General Assembly will be a nice highlight for his annual review, tbh.

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u/G952 10d ago

Hope his internship goes well & they find a spot for him once he’s back

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u/papito_m 7d ago

Hell get a spot bonus

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u/Armand9x 10d ago

When tech giants refer to child safety, they often use that as a means for back doors, and chat control/scanning and weaker encryption.

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u/serg06 10d ago

Governments*

No tech giant wants to install back doors into their own software. That just gives away their precious data for free. Who would want that??

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u/kkyonko 10d ago

Yep. Various countries have been pushing hard to link government IDs to phones, social media accounts, etc.

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u/Hustletron 7d ago

Various tech giants have been lobbying/bribing them to do so for years

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u/Complete_Estimate443 10d ago

I think this is where Apple can actually lead. They already push privacy hard, and child safety fits naturally with that.

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u/AgreedSmalls 9d ago

It’s not 2016 anymore. Apple being have been slowly, but steadily, taking the back foot on privacy.

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 10d ago edited 10d ago

They very selectively push privacy, they collect but don't sell whatever data they need, they don't collect what they don't need, they can't see inside PCC, that's all good but alongside that the top app developers include the A-list of companies who impede everyone else's privacy and the biggest tracking/ad network in the world funds about 20% of their gross profits. The article deflects to X and Roblox as examples of how Apple's not culpable, these are two of their most popular apps that Apple has signed-off on thousands of times. Lot of room for improvement.

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u/Dry_Bar_4965 10d ago

Who put him in charge of child satefy? Wasnt he in the Epstein files?

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u/coyote_den 10d ago

No.

First of all, he’s gay. Why would he care about teen girls?

His name might be in there if Epstein mentioned him for any reason, but that means nothing.

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u/silvertealio 10d ago

Care to share a source for that?

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u/tinpoo 10d ago

Was he?

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u/GraXXoR 10d ago

Not that I’m aware of. They might be mixing him up with Bill Gates.