Talk to any engineer at Apple and they’ll tell you that privacy is involved with every feature development and pervades every discussion internally. It’s not a facade.

Friend used to be a security engineer at Apple and was thoroughly disillusioned with their privacy stance after working there for three years.

If by “part of the PRISM program” you mean “responds to court orders and routinely fights orders that are too broad”, then I suppose that is accurate.

Only because refusing would have bankrupted them.

The idea that Apple doesn't protect user privacy is absolute nonsense.

Once upon a time, people believed that kings were appointed by God to care about common folk, guide and discipline them. It's fun to see a modern commoner showing the same dedication to a corporate business.

You act like companies had a choice