每日一翻：Apple Pay Perturbs Prying Personal Prospectors

Apple’s efforts to improve your digital privacy have met with surprisingly strong resistance from companies and agencies that want your info. Seems that confidentiality hampers efforts to track buying habits—and bad guys.

苹果在提高用户数字隐私方面的努力受到了某些公司和机构异常强大的阻力，因为他们想到得到用户的信息，从而跟踪用户购买习惯。

The controversy revolves around what’s called Apple Pay. By employing the newly released payment system, users of the latest i-devices can now buy things without flashing a credit or debit card. Google’s offered a similar digital wallet for years, but Apple’s version will not collect transaction info or store card numbers on your device.

围绕Apple Pay引发的各种争论不断。通过使用最新发布的支付系统，用苹果最新设备的用户现在买东西的时候不再需要刷信用卡或者借记卡。谷歌提出类似的数码钱包已经有几年了，但是苹果的系统不会在你的设备里收集交易记录或者是商店的卡号。

Many retailers have bought in to Apple Pay. It promises to be more secure than plastic, and companies such as Staples need all the help they can get when it comes to data security. But other outfits, including retail giants Walmart and Best Buy, have rejected the Apple Pay technology because it prevents them from tracking customer-purchasing preferences. They’re working on a rival smartphone payment app called CurrentC.

许多零售商都引进了Apple Pay. Apple Pay号称在数据安全方面比塑料的卡片更安全，像Staples这样的公司使用之后可以得到任何在数据安全方面需要的帮助。但是其他包括零售巨头沃尔玛和百思买在内的公司拒绝使用Apple Pay技术，因为它不能让他们跟踪用户购买习惯。所以他们正在使用来自竞争对手的一款叫CurrentC的智能手机支付应用。

Meanwhile, law enforcement has demonized Apple over iOS 8, which passcode-protects photos and other info on the newest iPhones and iPads. Apple doesn’t store the passcodes, so it cannot turn them over even if there’s a warrant. Google will offer similar device encryption in an upcoming version of Android.

同时，法律的力量已经把运行IOS8的苹果最新的iPhone和iPad设备上的照片和其他信息密码保护的功能妖魔化了。苹果不会存储密码，所以即使有正当理由也依然不能移除他们。谷歌将在即将到来的Android新版中提供相同的设备加密方式。

Apple exerted its will on the music and publishing industries. We’ll see if the company has the clout to now move the needle on privacy.

苹果在音乐和出版业崭露头角。我们将见证苹果公司是否有撼动隐私政策的影响力。

—Larry Greenemeier