Dear Haytham,
This was dramatically demonstrated last week when security researchers revealed that Apple's iPhone tracks users' locations and saves them to a secret file on the device — and onto users' computers when the two are synced. Apple has promised to fix the problem, but things like this happen all too often. With every click, we entrust our conversations, emails, photos, location information and much more to companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. But what happens when the government asks these companies to hand over their users' private information? Tell the companies you use that it's time to protect your privacy! It's become more urgent than ever: We must demand respect for our privacy from companies with access to our conversations, emails, photos, search histories, location information and more. We have to let companies like Apple, Google and others know that, as stewards of our digital lives, they are our first line of defense when it comes to keeping private our most personal information. They shouldn't be collecting our personal information without our permission — and we should be able to count on them to protect our privacy when the government comes looking for that information. Demand that the companies you use:
If we don't act to protect our personal privacy, no one will.
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