Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading; Ars Technica, April 12, 202

SAMUEL AXON , Ars Technica; Tim Cook delivers speech railing against “data industrial complex,” sideloading

"Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage at the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) conference on Tuesday to talk about privacy, security, ad tracking, and sideloading.

Calling privacy "one of the most essential battles of our time," Cook lambasted companies that monetize large user-data collection operations, comparing them to real-world stalkers."

Facebook Didn’t Sell Your Data; It Gave It Away In exchange for even more data about you from Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft, and others; The Atlantic, December 19, 2018

Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic;

Facebook Didn’t Sell Your Data; It Gave It Away

In exchange for even more data about you from Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft, and others

"By the looks of it, other tech players have been happy to let Facebook get beaten up while their practices went unexamined. And then, in this one story, the radioactivity of Facebook’s data hoard spread basically across the industry. There is a data-industrial complex, and this is what it looked like."

Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the ‘data industrial complex’; October 24, 2018

Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch; Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the ‘data industrial complex’

"Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized against people and societies — arguing that the trade in digital data has exploded into a “data industrial complex”."