A new iPhone without a cellular contract costs at least $650, while a new smartphone powered by Google’s Android software can be as little as $50.
According to the ACLU’s principal technologist, Chris Soghioan, another gulf between the two is that Apple devices also better protect people’s data against criminals and surveillance. At MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, he warned that the combination of those differences has created a looming civil rights problem.
“We now find ourselves in not just a digital divide but a digital security divide,” he said. “The phone used by the rich is encrypted by default and cannot be surveilled, and the phone used by most people in the global south and the poor and disadvantaged in America can be surveilled.”
"Do no evil" my a**. Google is becoming a major part of the problem. And that problem is the ever increasing loss of privacy and individuality. To read more, click here.