THE CURIOUS ‘PIVOT TO PRIVACY’ AMONG THE TECH GIANTS OF 2019

FACEBOOK AND APPLE BOTH MAKING IT A PRIORITY

Change is afoot. After a year now infamous for a range of publically appalling data harvesting debacles, tech giants have taken a look at their practices and begun to change the way they approach data security and privacy. Or, to look at it another, more cynical way – tech giants have acknowledged our need for privacy, made more pertinent by how poorly they managed it in the past, and decided that this is how they can capitalize on it, from here on.

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg (he of the ) published a new, “privacy-focused vision for social networking”. Zuckerberg now believes that “the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be