Apple's Tim Cook calls for stronger privacy law after Facebook scandal
Tim Cook looks at Facebook's messy Cambridge Analytica affair as something of a wake-up call.
The Apple CEO has largely kept quiet on privacy issues since Facebook's troubles sprung up last week. That's when we learned that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica quietly, deceptively gathered data belonging to more than 50 million Facebook users in 2014.
SEE ALSO:Senators demand Mark Zuckerberg testify on Cambridge Analytica scandalCook's silence ended abruptly on Saturday when he fielded a question about the Facebook situation and how it affects his views on data privacy. Speaking at the China Development Forum in Beijing, Cook voiced his support for government regulation (h/t Bloomberg).
"I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary,” Cook said. “The ability of anyone to know what you’ve been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life -- from my own point of view it shouldn’t exist."
He went on describe a long-held worry that people aren't necessarily aware of what they're giving away in terms of their personal data when they sign up for one online service or another.
"We’ve worried for a number of years that people in many countries were giving up data probably without knowing fully what they were doing and that these detailed profiles that were being built of them, that one day something would occur and people would be incredibly offended by what had been done without them being aware of it," he said.
"Unfortunately that prediction has come true more than once."
Cook didn't specifically name the United States as one of those "many countries," but he later pointed out "the countries that embrace openness do exceptional."
Weak data privacy laws aren't a uniquely American problem, but -- as the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica situation illustrates -- they arean American problem too. Especially when you look at something like the General Data Protection Regulation, an EU-wide initiative that puts more of the onus on business interests to protect their users in fair and common sense ways.
(责任编辑:关于我们)
- 多措并举优治理 绘就幸福新图景
- Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol says North Korea's missile launch aimed at election confusion
- Screwed by Equifax? Apply to get some of the record
- Pepsi pulls cringeworthy Kendall Jenner ad after massive backlash
- Ford can make your Mustang Mach
- Number Representations in Computer Hardware
- North Korean delegation visits Laos, reports KCNA
- DJ Khaled is taking his social media Stories game to the next level
- Mendilibar starts Sevilla survival bid with Cadiz clash
- NASA rover snaps photo of its most daunting challenge yet
- Toxic chemicals banned in dishwashing liquids
- North Korea launches intermediate
- 石棉:举行春风行动现场招聘会
-
Elon Musk's AI facility is reportedly operating gas turbines without a permit
Elon Musk's AI company has caught the attention of environmentalists in Memphis, Tennessee for repor ...[详细] -
Tuchel won’t celebrate win with Bayern players
MUNICH:Thomas Tuchel said "he may never celebrate" with his players despite leading Bayern ...[详细] -
Boxing club fighting sectarian divisions
BELFAST:As darkness falls on a Monday night in east Belfast, Protestant teenager Abbie Leebody is tr ...[详细] -
Overseas Korean nationals allowed to vote in presidential election
The National Assembly passed an election law revision Thursday allowing some 2.2 million overseas Ko ...[详细] -
Scientists detect water sloshing on Mars. There could be a lot.
A pioneering NASA robot detected over a thousand quakes on Mars. It also may have revealed a huge re ...[详细] -
Watch porn anonymously: Incognito mode is not the answer, but this is
Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and ...[详细] -
Chinese top legislator Zhao Leji to visit North Korea this week
Zhao Leji, current Communist Party of China's Politburo Standing Committee member, applauds as he is ...[详细] -
Messi jeered as PSG suffer defeat
PARIS:Paris Saint-Germain suffered a second home defeat in a row Sunday, falling 1-0 to Lyon as thei ...[详细] -
Newborns hit new low, but births to those unmarried reach record high: data
(Getty Images)Births to those not married accounted for nearly 5 percent of all births last year, se ...[详细] -
本报讯 近日,记者从雨城联社获悉,该联社将全力以赴做好今年春耕备耕金融服务工作,确保涉农信贷投入增量高于上年水平,让农民群众春耕备耕“不差钱”。会议要求,要确保今年涉农信贷投入增量高于上年水平,增幅高 ...[详细]
How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep
Divorced couple still gets their family photo taken every year for their son
- GPU Mining is Dead, Where are my Cheap GPUs?
- 天全联社:分析一季度业务经营情况
- Chief of scandal probe regrets leaving many suspicions uninvestigated
- 渔业产值58.25亿元,六大优势亮眼!南海区鱼苗孵化量领先全国
- How much for Oasis tickets? Fans joke about splurging on reunion shows
- Scheffler readies for Masters repeat bid
- Now Julian Assange is tweeting at Trump for some reason