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Council on Foreign Relations: There’s A Cop In My Pocket: Policymakers Need to Stop Advocating Surveillance by Default.

August 28, 2023

Encryption is like a baby: It comes with problems, but you wouldn’t solve them with blunt force. There is no safe form of “end-to-half” encryption, no backdoor that serves government authorities without also serving criminals. Yet under the banner of foreign relations, lawmakers continue to advance policies that normalize surveillance by default. These measures turn personal devices into monitoring tools, weakening security for everyone while claiming to strengthen it. Once encryption is compromised, hackers and hostile states gain the same access as police. The result is a quiet dismantling of privacy, civil liberties, and the open internet itself.

‘We had one objective: beat Apple,’ says Samsung exec in new book

March 15, 2020

Samsung Rising is written by Geoffrey Cain, a technology reporter who specializes in Asia-based reporting. The new book is based on interviews with hundreds of people relaying the story of Samsung’s rise and its various (Apple-shaped) challenges along the way.

By Luke Dormehl
Cult of Mac

Mar 9, 2020

Samsung vs. Apple: Inside The Brutal War For Smartphone Dominance

March 15, 2020

In 2005, Chang-Gyu Hwang—president of Samsung’s semiconductor and memory business—traveled with two fellow executives to Palo Alto, to the home of Steve Jobs.

By Geoffrey Cain
Forbes

Mar 13, 2020

Clash of the Titans: Business Books 2019-2020

March 9, 2020

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court ruled in 2010’s Citizens Uniteddecision, it’s only natural that they should have biographies. Forthcoming narratives about businesses new and old offer a window onto each company’s history as well as the social and economic contexts out of which they arose and which they in turn have influenced.

By Daniel Lefferts
Publishers Weekly

Nov 29, 2019

Apple vs. Samsung: Tech’s best frenemies

November 24, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — Since 2011, two titans of the electronics industry — Samsung Electronics and Apple — have been locked in legal warfare over their smart phones and tablets, slinging more than 50 lawsuits at each other on four continents.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Nov 24, 2013

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How China Perfected the Surveillance State

March 25, 2025

Geoffrey Cain on Investigative Journalism, Authoritarian Power, and The Perfect Police State | In a wide-ranging conversation with Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society, investigative journalist Geoffrey Cain reflects on years spent reporting inside some of the world’s most restrictive regimes — and on the research behind his book The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.

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Thanks to AI, Apple’s China problem is only getting worse

February 21, 2025

For years, Tim Cook insisted Apple could change China from the inside. Instead, China changed Apple.
The latest evidence? Apple spent billions developing cutting-edge electric vehicle battery technology with Chinese automaker BYD, only to watch its innovations become the cornerstone of BYD’s rise to global electric vehicle dominance. Apple walked away with nothing. China walked away with everything.
This isn’t just another story about corporate research and development gone wrong. It’s a cautionary tale about how even America’s most valuable company has become trapped in China’s web of technological control — and how that web is about to tighten even further.