Apple CEO Tim Cook states Apple has no contract in location for access to Facebook users’ information.
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Apple has no contract in location for access to Facebook users’ information, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated Monday.
“We’ve never been in the data business,” Cook informed NPR, reacting to a New York Times report Sunday that Facebook had contracts to supply access to big quantities of user information to a minimum of 60 various gadget makers– consisting of business like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and BlackBerry
“The things mentioned in the Times article about relationship statuses and all these kinds of stuff, this is so foreign to us, and not data that we have ever received at all or requested — zero,” Cook informed NPR.
“What we did was we integrated the ability to share in the operating system, make it simple to share a photo and that sort of thing,” Cook included. “So it’s a convenience for the user. We weren’t in the data business. We’ve never been in the data business.”
Apple has actually ended up being a huge supporter for user personal privacy in the previous a number of years. Cook has actually even cautioned, in several interviews, about the risks of social networks and other complimentary online services.
In a 2014 interview with Charlie Rose, Cook stated that “everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? … If they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried. And you should really understand what’s happening to that data. And companies, I think, should be very transparent about it.”
Facebook has actually been under examination considering that the discovery in March that consultancy Cambridge Analytica had actually misused Facebook user information in the lead approximately the 2016 United States governmental election. Since then, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has affirmed in front of Congress and the European Parliament to respond to concerns about Facebook’s handling of user information.
In a test, a New York Times press reporter logged into Facebook utilizing a 2013 BlackBerry gadget, utilizing an account with approximately 550 good friends, keeping an eye on the information asked for and got. Through a BlackBerry app called The Hub, the gadget had the ability to get “identifying information” for approximately 295,000 Facebook users.
Sen John Thune, head of the United States Senate Commerce Committee, stated Monday his committee “will be sending Facebook a letter seeking additional information” about problems consisting of openness and personal privacy dangers.
A Facebook representative stated: “We look forward to addressing any questions the Commerce Committee may have.”
Apple didn’t right away react to an ask for remark.
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