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    Home»News»Apple CEO Tim Cook preaches importance of user privacy in major address

    Apple CEO Tim Cook preaches importance of user privacy in major address

    News By Agency Staff24 October 2018
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    Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday touted the importance of privacy and legislation to protect it, as the iPhone maker seeks to distance itself from Silicon Valley competitors under scrutiny for recent user data breaches.

    The comments, given at an EU privacy conference in Brussels, come months after the bloc implemented strict new data protection rules and as Apple begins to mend a difficult relationship with the EU following a clash over €13-billion in allegedly unpaid taxes.

    “It’s time for the rest of the world, including my home country, to follow your lead,” Cook said, referencing Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. “We in Apple are in full support of comprehensive federal privacy laws in the US.”

    This is surveillance and these stockpiles of data serve only to make rich the companies that collect them. This should make us uncomfortable

    Meanwhile, regulators and lawmakers in Europe and the US have trained their eyes on Facebook and Google following revelations of potential user privacy violations.

    Facebook in September reported a cyberattack that affected 30 million people, with hackers stealing intimate user information, including search results, recent locations and hometowns, in many cases. And after keeping it quiet for months, Google earlier in October said it found a “software glitch” in its Google+ social network in March that could have exposed the personal data of as many as half a million users.

    Cook has previously criticised Google and Facebook for basing their business models on harvesting personal information for advertising, while highlighting that Apple tries to collect as little of it as possible.

    “We shouldn’t sugarcoat the consequences,” he said on Wednesday. “This is surveillance and these stockpiles of data serve only to make rich the companies that collect them. This should make us uncomfortable.”

    Indirectly benefiting

    Still, Apple indirectly benefits from Google’s business model. Google will pay Apple as much as $9-billion this year for its search engine to be the default on many parts of the iPhone and other Apple devices, Goldman Sachs Group estimates.

    Apple has been in the headlines recently for security issues of its own following a Bloomberg report that Chinese spies used a microchip to infiltrate the computer networks of almost 30 US companies, including Apple and Amazon.com.

    Apple has vehemently disputed the report and said its servers weren’t compromised. In an interview with Buzzfeed News published last week, Cook called on Bloomberg to retract the story. Bloomberg in response said it stands by the story and is confident in the reporting and sources.  — Reported by Natalia Drozdiak and Stephanie Bodoni, (c) 2018 Bloomberg LP

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