Tim Cook, in an op-ed, asks Congress to pass privacy legislation and the FTC to create a data-broker clearinghouse so users can track and control their data
to enable Google's data harvesting/tracking/online advertising. Tim Cook strangely doesn't mention this here: http://time.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : 1. http://time.com/... 2. pic.twitter.com/IIzVrgt0LU Nilay Patel / @reckless : The iPhone's value is built on these services. Pushing for a law is great, but it is telling that they won't use their own platform dominance to forbid these practices. Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : A good first step. http://time.com/... Thom / @thomholwerda : Does this also apply to your Chinese users, @tim_cook? http://time.com/... John Battelle / @johnbattelle : Umm, Hey Tim, and 5th, the right to machine readable data portability, eh? http://time.com/... Steve Kopack / @stevekopack : Tim Cook calls for the FTC to “establish a data-broker clearinghouse” which would make all brokers register, allow consumers to track transactions that have sold their data and allow users to delete their data “freely, easily and online, once and for all.” http://time.com/... Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore : Apple's Tim Cook, in @time, calls for national data collection “clearinghouse” run by @FTC so that consumers can see who knows what about them. But the critical line in the sand: Cook says consumers should have right to demand that data be deleted. http://time.com/... Sam Bowman / @s8mb : Failing business calls for regulation of faster growing rivals http://www.theguardian.com/...