Apple's new products ratchet up need for privacy protections

[Commentary] Apple's release of the Apple Watch and iPhone6 makes it clear that Silicon Valley's future will be directly tied to its ability to protect tech users' privacy. Securing Americans' personal information in an increasingly tech-dominated world has to be a higher priority for tech leaders and the valley's congressional and legislative delegations. Their failures up to now have left them, shall we say, exposed to the point of embarrassment. Sixty years ago, about the time CBS News first used a UNIVAC to collect voter data and make election predictions, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas offered up this wisdom: "The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." That should be the valley's motto as it works to improve security and keep itself on top of the business world.