Apple CEO Tim Cook ratcheted up the rhetoric around user privacy as tech rivals Facebook and Google continue to struggle with the issue. In a speech in Brussels, Mr. Cook praised Europe’s GDPR privacy protections, while calling on the U.S. to pass similarly stringent privacy laws. Mr. Cook spoke about how user data was being harvested in ways that are ultimately harmful to people. “Our own...
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