Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on threats to undermine privacy

Tim Cook.

Although the need for data privacy seems to have been almost entirely undermined in the contemporary technology landscape, it was a hot topic a decade ago.

Apple, at the time at least, maintained a houlier-than-though stance compared with some of its competitors like Google and Facebook – but also took a strong stance against governments around the world threatening to undermine encryption.