Privacy News Apple's Tim Cook backs privacy laws in keynote address

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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday warned that personal information is being "weaponized" and “has exploded into a data industrial complex, our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency, scraps of personal data are collected for digital profiles that let businesses know users better than they know themselves and allow companies to offer users increasingly extreme content that hardens their convictions, this is surveillance, and these stockpiles of personal data serve to enrich only the companies that collect them."

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