Google “embarrassed” by Android security flaws, says ACLU
ACLU Principal Technologist Chris Soghioan, speaking at the EmTech conference hosted in Cambridge, Massachusetts by the MIT Technology Review, said Apple’s efforts to protect the privacy of its users, including end-to-end encryption of their communications, effectively separates the company’s more affluent iOS users from the poor and disadvantaged forced to use Android.
“We now find ourselves in not just a digital divide but a digital security divide,” he said. “The phone used by the rich is encrypted by default and cannot be surveilled, and the phone used by most people in the global south and the poor and disadvantaged in America can be surveilled.”
As a result, mobile security could become a human rights issue that the ACLU may take on in the foreseeable future, unless companies become more proactive in software security.