My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.
Tim CookWith hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.
Tim CookSince these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
Tim CookEverybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
Tim CookIf I know what your messages are, if I can read those, I'll probably be able to conclude where you're going, who you're with, the location the message was sent.
Tim CookI'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.
Tim Cook