‘ PRIVACY’ IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT, SAYS APPLE CEO
Apple successfully kickedoff WWDC this week. The company’s CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at San Jose to launch the new iOS 12, watchOS, tvOS and macOS with new features and developments. After the event, the CEO in an interview with CNN spoke about topics covering privacy, DATA, a newly introduced screen- time feature on iOS 12, immigration and his political views.
In the current scenario, Cook believes that privacy has gotten out of hand and people aren’t aware of who’s tracking them.
“The privacy thing has gotten totally out of control,” Cook said. “I think most people are not aware of who is tracking them, how much they’re being tracked and sort of the large amounts of detailed data that are out there about them.” He also raised his concerns about regulations stating “Generally, for me, I’m not a big fan of regulation, I think self- regulation is the best,” Cook said. “But when it’s not working, and in some cases, it’s not working, you have to ask yourself what form of regulation might be good. And I think it’s a fair question many people are asking at this point.”
The CEO believes that privacy is a ‘ basic fundamental right’ to any user and said it’s unhealthy to raise fingers at a particular company like Facebook for breaching user data. Instead everybody should be focusing on making the web an ‘ unbelievable’ place, he said.