Whistle blower Edward Snowden shuns Apple iPhones amid surveillance software fears
Edward Snowden’s lawyer has announced that Edward Snowden gives iPhones a wide berth over fears the devices hide software capable of collecting sensitive personal user data.
Snowden, who was granted three years asylum in Russia last August, had his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena discuss some of his security practises with Russian news website RIA Novosti.
Kucherena alleged: “Edward never uses an IPhone, he’s got a simple phone. The iPhone has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button.
“It can gather information about him, that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone.”
The lawyer claimed that Snowden’s decision to not use Apple’s flagship smartphone was not due to his dislike of the devices but rather from a professional privacy stand point.
Last October, Snowden, citing his insider knowledge of US and UK data collection practises, urged web users to ditch Dropbox, Facebook and Google claiming they were “hostile to privacy”.
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