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"Intriguingly, Cook argues that even in an age of digital money, which is inherently less private than cash, consumers’ private life can still be respected. His new payments system - Apple Pay - in particular has been designed to restrict the amount of information available to outsiders, he says."

Your data is private as long as we are ones keeping it secure. At this point, can we really trust any large company with our data?

Can we really trust any large company? For anything?

When a pile of money reaches into the billions it tends to become self aware, and co-opts everything associated with it into serving it.