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I understood Aral's rethoric as follows: I develop for Apple (and only) Apple, due to the lack of a better platform.

A majority of privacyscholars participate in CPDP, due to the lack of a better platform.

Bit hypocrite no?

People seem to like Apple a lot...

Apple's mission isn't privacy advocacy, or serving as a platform for debate on privacy or human rights.

Yeah, they advertise some kind of privacy protection as a product feature, and you can debate whether or not those advertising claims have merit, but it's a long way off from the CPDP conflict of interest that Aral describes.

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