This is the most ridiculous piece I’ve ever read on Medium, thanks! I assume it’s meant to be humorous? (Well that’s how I read it)

What with governments trying every method at their disposal to invade citizens privacy, people are now forced to depend on giant tech corporations to defend their rights (who would’ve predicted that ten years go?).

Why would tech companies be interested in protecting their customers rights? Two reasons:

• The people who work in those companies fundamentally believe it’s the right thing to do;
• Customers are willing to pay them for it.

Now, of the five big tech companies – I’m thinking Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft – which of these doesn’t have a business model structured around learning every tiny detail about your life, to sell to advertisers? Namely, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.

Of these, Apple is the one that has gone toe-to-toe with the FBI over not compromising their customers right to privacy, and made iMessage so secure that not even they can read messages.

Yes, this Apple is the biggest threat to global privacy, by introducing a feature that is seemingly more accurate than fingerprint scanning, and certainly more secure for normal people than remembering passcodes (I hear 1,2,3,4 and 0,0,0,0 are very popular). By scanning faces, and storing a mathematical expression of a series of facial datapoints in a secure enclave that has yet to be hacked by anyone since the birth of Touch ID.

Faces. You know, the same face you expose to thousands of cctv cameras every time you stroll around a metropolitan area, and likely the most publicly visible part of your body; far more than your fingerprint. Unless you walk around with your face permanently covered then your face is being photographed and recorded by persons unknown every single day, yet if Apple uses it to unlock your phone, then they’re bringing about the privacy apocalypse… somehow.

Absolute reactionary piffle.