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Apples Tim Cook warns of adtech fuelling a social disaster as he defends app tracker opt-in

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has instructed Europe to step up privacy enforcement in a keynote speech to the CPDP conference these days — echoing maximum of the criteria he made in Brussels in person two years up to now when he hit out at the ‘information industrial advanced’ underpinning the adtech business&#8…
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has urged Europe to step up privacy enforcement in a keynote speech to the CPDP conference today — echoing many of the points he made in Brussels in person two years ago when he hit out at the ‘data industrial complex’ underpinning the adtech industry…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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