Tim Cook Warns of "Data-Industrial Complex"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18017842/tim-cook-data-privacy-laws-us-speech-brussels

         At a privacy conference in Brussels on the 24th of October, Tim cook warned of "data-industrial complex" calling for comprehensive US privacy laws like EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He said that modern technology has created a 'data-industrial complex' in which private and everyday information is weaponized against users with military sufficiency and that it is harming not just individuals but societies. Cook stated, "Platforms and algorithms that promised to improve our lives can actually magnify our worst human tendencies. Rogue actors and even governments have taken advantage of user trust to deepen division, incite violence, and even undermine our shared sense of what is true and what is false. This crisis is real. It is not imagined, or exaggerated, or crazy." Although he was not specifically naming names, it is clear that he was referencing to recent events from Facebook like Cambridge Analytica and how user data was used to sway elections in the U.S and the U.K.