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TIM COOK BACKS PRIVACY LAWS, WARNS DATA BEING ‘WEAPONIZED’

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The head of Apple on Wednesday endorsed tough privacy laws for both Europe and the U.S. and renewed the technology giant’s commitment to protecting personal data, which he warned was being “weaponized” against users.

Speaking at an international conference on data privacy, Apple CEO Tim Cook applauded European Union authorities for bringing in a strict new data privacy law in May and said the iPhone maker supports a U.S. federal privacy law.

Cook’s speech, along with video comments from Google and Facebook top bosses, in the European Union’s home

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