Apple, Google, Microsoft and other American IT companies have been constantly criticized in the last year due to the strengthening of security measures to protect user data, the American federal agencies being "angry" because they can no longer access the important data of the targets as easily. The security measures implemented by these companies are, apparently, so good that the big governments of the world are "scared" due to the fact that they can no longer spy on their citizens or terrorists, asking the companies to relax their data protection methods.
According to journalist Glenn Greenwald, who published the first information provided by the former NSA collaborator Edward Snowden, the big intelligence agencies have very big problems in retrieving data from iDevices, Facebook and other operating systems, companies refusing to cooperate in many cases with government agencies. The information comes in addition to a recent one that says that the Americans from the CIA tried for almost a decade to break the security systems of iOS and OS X, but it is not known what they managed to achieve.
They (Apple) are now starting to put serious encryption technologies in their new iPhones in their new releases and this has really petrified governments around the world. If...you're a Facebook executive or an Apple executive, you're extremely worried that the next generation of users...are going to be vulnerable to the pitch from Brazilian, and Korean and German social media companies where they advertise and say don' t use Facebook and Google because they'll give your data to the NSA.
Although you might think that big companies start to care about their customers out of nowhere, the reality is, according to Glenn Greenwald, that due to competition from foreign services that protect data, Apple, Facebook or Google are forced to secure their information more carefully . Practically, we don't have to thank the companies for protection, but their competitors, because without them we wouldn't have had a more effective protection system.
