Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
Tim CookIf I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.
Tim CookIf you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.
Tim Cook