"If you are in the position of Zuckerberg, what would you do?" Tim Cook answered, "I will not fall into that situation"

Consulting company by Cambridge AnalyticaUnauthorized use of 50 million user dataAnd with the Android applicationWe collected user's call history and SMS historyFor Facebook, which is a big topic of concern, Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, responds to an interview and questioned privacy concerns such as Facebook and advocates the need for some measures, including regulation.

Apple CEO Tim Cook says Facebook should have regulated itself, but it's too late for that now - Recode
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Mr. Cook, who participated in the American IT media · record and MSNBC TV interview program, talks about privacy protection as represented by this Facebook issue. In this, Mr. Cook says that companies such as Facebook should be suppressed from dealing with personal data to create detailed personal profiles using data gathered from multiple sources .


Mr. Cook told that he does not like to regulate personally and said that "the best regulation is" no regulation "and" self-regulation "is better than outside regulation We talk about the idea that autonomous self-control should be done. However, on the other hand, he says that "I already feel that the stage is over," and states the necessity of taking some kind of brakes.

Companies such as Facebook and Google use information on users who use services as market tools for advertising businesses deployed by each company, which are also specified in their respective "Terms of Service". Meanwhile, Apple has some moves to promote advertising business, basically by selling hardware such as iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc., it creates the majority of sales. This policy is what was shown by Mr. Steve Jobs before life.

That is, there is a policy of selling hardware and selling hardware, not a user, and Mr. Cook further states: "Actually, if Apple monitors users, a huge amount of money will come in. But Apple I chose not to do that. "


Apple has been cautious about handling privacy so far and has been dispatching a policy not to make money with personal information.

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Mr. Cook, who clearly indicated that the policy was different from Facebook and Google, asked from the interviewer, "If you are CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerburg?", "I was in a situation like that It is not to be "and confidence that privacy concerns are not caught up was confident.