Are Apple and Google Really on Your Side Against the NSA?

Click here to access article by Bill Blunden from CounterPunch.

In the past couple of days both Google[i] and Apple[ii] have announced that they’re enabling default encryption on their mobile devices so that only the user possessing a device’s password can access its local files.

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Quite a sales pitch? Cleverly disguised as a news report no less. Though it’s not stated outright the tacit message is: open your wallet for the latest gadget and you’ll be safe from Big Brother.

Blunden deconstructs the latest deceptions from corporate America.