Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference last week:
The reality is that there is an interconnected ecosystem of companies and data brokers, fake news providers, division boosters, trackers, and those interested in making easy money with more presence than ever before in our lives.
And it is evident how much it degrades our fundamental right to privacy and, ultimately, the social fabric.
I have said it before: if we accept as a normal and inevitable fact that everything in our lives can be added and sold, then we lose much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.
However, we are also in a time of hope, reflection, and transformation. Many of you have made our most tangible advances possible.