IERI (Yesterday) Tim Cook he was present in London and in an interview given to the Telegraph about Apple Watch, he also talked about terrorism and user data security. According to Cook, users do not currently understand the ramifications of sharing important data with various third-party companies, but that one day they will. He keep saying that international governments should not force companies to provide data about users motivating their demands on national security and attempts to combat terrorism.
Cook fundamentally disagrees. "None of us should accept that the government or a company or anybody should have access to all of our private information. This is a basic human right. We all have a right to privacy. We shouldn't give it up. We shouldn't give in to scare-mongering or to people who fundamentally don't understand the details."
Cook claims that the governments of important countries put pressure on many IT companies to give them access to the private data of users, he is firmly against such practices, arguing that privacy is a basic human right. Although Tim Cook is against terrorism, he believes that security agencies' access to user data and a relaxation of data security policies would not help in any way. He claims that the terrorists will encrypt their important data under any circumstances, so that they will not be able to be accessed anyway, so the access of the security agencies to the users' data would not help in any way.
Terrorists will encrypt. They know what to do. If we don't encrypt, the people we affect [by cracking down on privacy] are the good people. They are the 99.999pc of people who are good. We don't make money selling your information to somebody else. We don't think you want that. We don't want to do that. It's not in our values system to do that.
Concluding the interview, Tim Cook reiterates the fact that he is a firm supporter of user privacy and data protection, the Apple company not being interested in selling their data, as other companies do.
