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Apple's Tim Cook and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg square off with increasingly sharp words in the latest tech sector catfight, but it's a tussle that has wider implications around privacy, both personal and corporate.
(Pixabay)
An inter-connected eco-system of companies and data brokers, of purveyors of Fake News and pedlars of division, of trackers and hucksters just looking to make a quick buck, is more present in our lives than it has ever been.
Who on Earth can Apple CEO Tim Cook be talking about? While never actually resorting to using the F-word directly, most of the audience listening to Cook’s impassioned address to the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference last Friday would have been left in little doubt that it was a certain social media platform that was front and center as the target of his ire.