{"617427":{"#nid":"617427","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Apple\u2019s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor at\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, recently wrote an article entitled \u0026ldquo;Apple\u0026rsquo;s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We at Apple believe that privacy is a fundamental human right,\u0026rdquo; Apple\u0026rsquo;s CEO, Tim Cook,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kVhOLkIs20A\u0022\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in a privacy-conference keynote last year in Brussels. \u0026ldquo;But we also recognize that not everyone sees things as we do.\u0026rdquo; Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry\u0026rsquo;s collection and sale of user data. \u0026ldquo;This is surveillance,\u0026rdquo; he continued. \u0026ldquo;And these stockpiles of personal data serve only to enrich the companies that collect them.\u0026rdquo; Cook\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/10\/tim-cook-calls-for-strong-us-privacy-law-rips-data-industrial-complex\/\u0022\u003Ecalled for\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a comprehensive U.S. data-privacy law focused on minimizing data collection, securing that data, and informing users about its nature and use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/01\/apples-hypocritical-defense-data-privacy\/581680\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2018\/10\/video-games-remind-life-computable-answer\/613566\u0022\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Portions of his article were also quoted in a \u003Cem\u003EUSA Today\u003C\/em\u003E article entitled\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/nletter\/2019\/02\/01\/what-if-facebook-and-google-didnt-want-your-data\/2734316002\/\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;What if Apple Ran Social Media and Facebook?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-02-06 19:02:39","changed_gmt":"2019-02-06 19:02:39","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/01\/apples-hypocritical-defense-data-privacy\/581680\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=2iLPi4HX"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"3221","name":"privacy"},{"id":"2895","name":"Apple"},{"id":"10835","name":"Facebook"},{"id":"167543","name":"social media"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}