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Apple CEO Signals He's Not Backing Down On iPhone Encryption

If Protecting Privacy Isn't A Priority, 'We Risk Our Way Of Life'
Farah Mohamed
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Managing Editor, The WorldPost

STANFORD, CA - FEBRUARY 13: Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection on February 13, 2015 in Stanford, California. U.S. President Barak Obama joined corporate CEOs to speak about the imporatance of cybersecurity during the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
STANFORD, CA - FEBRUARY 13: Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection on February 13, 2015 in Stanford, California. U.S. President Barak Obama joined corporate CEOs to speak about the imporatance of cybersecurity during the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

On Friday, the White House convened a “cyber summit” at Stanford’s campus in Palo Alto so that business and government leaders could get together and talk, essentially, about how scary hackers are.

There were two keynote speakers: Apple CEO Tim Cook, who got 10 minutes of talking time, and President Obama, who got 30 minutes. Obama focused on the threats to our digital security — “This is not a liberal or conservative issue. Everybody is online and everybody is vulnerable” — and legislation he’s proposed, including a revision to the existing law against computer intrusion and a national data breach notification law. He ended the talk by signing an executive order to promote companies sharing information about digital attackers. Cook, meanwhile, spent most of his time promoting Apple Pay and talking about threats to privacy in the name of security.

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