Posted on 03/28/2018 2:59:53 PM PDT by Enlightened1
CEO criticizes monetization of customers’ personal information
Cook says the time for self-regulation is past
Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, issued a harsh rebuke of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s business model on Wednesday, saying that detailed profiles of individuals compiled by internet platforms should not exist. Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you Dylan Curran Read more
“We could make a ton of money if we monetized our customers, if our customers were our product,” Cook said in an interview with Recode and MSNBC that will air on 6 April. “We’ve elected not to do that … We’re not going to traffic in your personal life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty.”
Cook also said that it is past time to regulate Facebook. “I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation,” he said. “However, I think we’re beyond that here.”
The comment echoed remarks Cook made in Beijing last week, when he said: “I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary.”
Facebook has received a deluge of criticism in the wake of the Observer’s reporting that the personal information of 50 million American users was used by the electioneering firm Cambridge Analytica.
But Cook has been sounding the alarm on mass data collection by Facebook and Google for years. The executive has long pointed to the distinction between Apple’s business model – selling products to customers for a profit – and that of internet platforms that are “gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it”, as he said in 2015.
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I guess you did not get the word?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/28/17055088/apple-chinese-icloud-accounts-government-privacy-speed
and
Here from Apple,
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
“In the meanwhile, Tim Cook moves Apple Cloud to Communist China.”
I had to Google that one. It sounds crazy!
Yes, Apple has Cloud services in China, but only for Chinese customers. Those in America ... Apple is using US-based cloud services.
Amen to that FRiend !
Tim is a horse’s butt. However, from a link on the same page, a guide to the info Googe and Facebook have on you - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy
Now the faggot speaks up? He’s known all along what social media does and has spoken up very little about it.
“Apple’s 180-acre iCloud plant in North Carolina is powered by 200 acres of solar panels.”
Which are an environmental disaster since they require far more resources to produce than they will ever produce in electricity.
Haha!
Oh and you believe that?
Then I have beach front property in Kansas to sell you.
China is the world’s number 1 hackers. It well known.
Chinese users iCloud accounts are being moved to China. The NC iCloud facility remains.
Hardly.
It’s well known to anyone within the industry.
https://cyware.com/news/top-10-countries-with-most-hackers-in-the-world-42e1c94e
I am not an Apple product buyer, but Apple has a good track record of protecting their customer’s privacy.
“Tim is a horse’s butt.”
No, Tim is a fudgepacker!
I don't have an iCloud account registered in China. Do you? Stupid if you do.
Not saying I agree with using solar generation in large-scale applications. I don't. When saying solar generation is zero-emission, the supporters do not take in account the need for oil to mine, produce, and transport as well as use standard equipment (which use oil) to install the solar equipment. Solar is not zero-emission, far from it.
Hey Apple, there’s Facebook.
Let’s you and him fight...
LOL!
Yes, I do believe that.
In order to do business in China, Apple was required to keep their cloud servers in China for Chinese customers.
Apple has server farms in Oregon, North Carolina, California, and Nevada for its US customers. No need to use the servers in China when they’ve got such robust and dependable servers in the the US.
All that said, *IF* Apple ever stored my data on computers in China, I would share your concern. I have no confidence in the security of China-based servers.
This reminds me of the joke:
Q. How fast do you need to be to out-run a bear that is chasing you?
A. You just need to be able to run faster than the guy behind you.
:-)
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