Keeping individual’s data private from companies and scammers (i.e. NOT state level actors) is privacy. Keeping individual’s data from a government agency that has a legal right to it (I.e PRISM) is breaking the law.

This is not a value judgement on the ethical nature of said state actors. But that’s the difference — one is legal and desirable for all consumers, so they can pursue it. One is illegal and would put them in violation of federal law, so of course a public company cannot.

This is disturbing.

That doesn’t refute my general point or do much to substantiate the earlier assertion that apple had done nothing wrt privacy. Nice try though ;)

What’s next? You going to use that same article to argue that the USA is equivalent to North Korea?