A computer can easily know right from wrong to the degree most humans are capable of (and too often they aren't very sophisticated at that) even today. But it's safe to assume that that ARM processor has no conscious awareness. Conscious awareness is simply the feeling of observing things, a feeling we assume the machines we've built do not have, for example.
Humans adapt to the moral system of their society. There is no set of "universal morals" that all humans have.
But do realise this, since I'm not a moral relativity apologist. I'm going to say that moral systems are not equal and some backward societies need to get their systems fixed.
Have you read the god delusion by Dawkins? There he takes on just that myth - there has been a very good body of research in presenting people with the same set of moral conundrums - every race and culture, even "primitive" have indistinguishable moral responses. (Obviously individual variance was high)
In India corruption runs through all levels of government. This is a fact. So, yes, misuse is much more likely.
I understand that you may have wanted to express that it's less likely that the data is abused for political reasons _by the government_ to further certain political goals. This may be true, I don't know.
It's embarrassing that it's public, but I highly doubt the countries involved trusted their hosts. Do you really think Russia trusts the UK and the US?
I wonder why so many people believe this. Many simple and weak ciphers have been around for decades and - although they are considered to be very insecure by cryptographers - certainly can't be decrypted in real-time (!) on this scale (!).
Thumbs up for this coming from the conservative party as well. As others have said, this really is a bi-partisan issue and we should build as broad a coalition of the unwilling as possible.
I do not expect to much. Our governments are extremly careful not to interfere with US interests. Stasi documents about the CIA? Unlawfully given to the CIA and not published. The man responsible is now the president. Merkel, started her career in the pro-dictatorship eastern CDU. Worked for the FDJ (somewhat GDR equivalent to the Hilter youth) as PR manager.
Not doing anything against the abduction of Kurznatz by the CIA. "Opposing" the Iraq war, but allow the US air fields to operate. It goes on and on and on. This is just a little rethorics. See also: Isle "facebook" Eigner.
We have elections in September, and this is an issue where they can't do anything, don't suffer in any way, but have a chance for free friendly press.
Meanwhile, the same conservative party added biometric photos and fingerprints to official documents (mandantory on some, optional on others); happily sends over flight and banking data to the US (they were in favor of the SWIFT agreement); established their own flavor of communication data ("metadata") retention policies ignoring both arguments and protects; collect traffic data "for street charge purposes only"; now want to use both for tracking down increasingly minor offenses (despite originally arguing that this wouldn't ever happen, and opponents to those laws are paranoid when assuming so much).
So yes, it's great that they oppose PRISM (if only to keep the topic in the media). But it's probably just out of jealousy because their own implementation is so much weaker.
Who are those users to have an opinion of their own? If that's the way you think about your users, you probably don't deserve having them.
Maybe some people don't like the design, but can't move because they have already invested too much into the platform? A brand is a promise to not mess things up.
If users love everything Apple does we criticize them (The sheep!). If they form an opinion while still using Apple devices we criticize them as well (Those "experts"!).
Btw, I actually like the design. I was sort of shocked when I first saw it, but it grows on you pretty quickly.
You can easily pick out the recording LED on camera equipment from 30m so that's not really an issue. The bigger problem is simply not noticing once glass becomes even slightly popular.
