mo4ch:>'Luxury good' or no privacy at all? Apple & Google duke it out over customers' data | Mo4ch News

An Apple exec is defending the high cost of privacy after a passive-aggressive jab from Google over turning what was once a fundamental civil right into a 'luxury good' – but look who's talking. Pot, meet kettle. Who's blacker?"We have no interest in learning all about you as a company," Apple vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi boasted to the Independent, adding that he "doesn't buy into" the criticism leveled against the company by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who hinted that Apple could only afford to respect users' privacy because its products are so expensive."Privacy cannot be a luxury good offered only to people who can afford to buy premium products and services," Pichai wrote in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month that stopped just short of naming Apple as the target of his scorn. The Google chief argued that slurping up "a small subset of" customers' data is necessary for the company to…