Read this piece by the ACLU praising Apple for recent steps it has taken to protect user privacy from both governments and Apple itself. There are certainly still numerous grounds on which Apple fails Professor Moglen's standards, particularly in the area of rules against sharing, but should we not regard this as significant progress? Or are there reasons to doubt the sincerity/veracity/efficacy of these claims?

"Apple Throws Down the Privacy Gauntlet" via Medium

Cliff's notes for the tl;dr-inclined:

-Apple announces that they have eliminated their ability to extract data from iOS devices, for themselves or on behalf of governments

-ACLU praises Apple for "delivering end-to-end encrypted text, voice, and video communications...(via) iMessage and FaceTime? ," calling these "a much more secure alternative to regular telephone calls and text messages."

-- TomLawrence - 26 Sep 2014