to all activity and that there's
no real legitimate function to
get at information or that the
safeguards aren't there, you
know, then you have to say,
well, what about ever collecting
taxes or stopping child
pornography or perhaps most
importantly as terrorism moves
from conventional approaches to
nuclear and biological, who are
you counting on to find that
early and make sure it doesn't
happen?
so there are issues about
safeguards.
the u.s. government under j.
edgar hoover and other cases did
take this right of surveillance
and not use it entirely
tastefully, and so, you know, i
think most people hope that the
safeguards are appropriate so
that the government isn't
totally blind.
>> the argument one could make
is apple shouldn't be deciding
this issue of privacy.
yes, there should be privacy,
the government should be very
careful with this data, but
those are decisions to be made
by the elected representatives
of government, not by a private
company.
>> well, even apple would...