Back during the aboriginal canicule of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, abounding eyes angry to Apple. CEO Tim Cook was asked what he would do if he were Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg, and the Apple executive's acknowledgment has become article of a mantra for Apple. "I wouldn’t be in this situation," Cook said. "We could accomplish a ton of money if our chump was our product. We’ve adopted not to do that."
Today, Apple's administrator of federal government affairs, Timothy Powderly, about again Cook's comments in a letter accounting to Oregon Rep. Greg Walden (R), administrator of the Abode Committee on Energy and Commerce. The letter was accounting in acknowledgment to a cannonball that the agent had beatific to Tim Cook aftermost month. Besides allurement about Apple's position on privacy, Walden capital to apperceive whether the microphone acclimated for Siri could be acclimated to accept in to conversations, and how Apple collects advice including area data.
"We accept aloofness is a axiological animal appropriate and advisedly architecture our articles and casework to abbreviate our accumulating of chump data. When we do aggregate data, we're cellophane about it and assignment to abstract it from the user. We advance on-device processing abbreviate abstracts accumulating by Apple. The chump is not our product, and our business archetypal does not depend on accession all-inclusive amounts of alone identifiable advice to adorn targeted profiles marketed to advertising."-Letter accounting by Timothy Powderly, administrator of federal government affairs, Apple
A agnate letter as the one beatific Cook from Rep. Walden was additionally mailed to Alphabet CEO Larry Page. However, the questions beatific to Page included one that asked whether Google receives area abstracts from users of Android phones, alike if the handset's area casework accept been disabled.
Check out the aboriginal letter from Rep. Walden by beat on this link.
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