Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has bashed Facebook’s business model and saying detailed profiles of individual’s information shouldn’t exist on any social media platform.At the Town hall event in Chicago with MSNBC and the technology website Recode, Cook was asked, ‘what if you are in the shoes of Mark Zuckerberg right now?’ and how would he handle in the current Cambridge Analytica scenario.“What would I do? I wouldn’t be in that situation, Tim Cook replied.
Though the interview of MSNBC is scheduled to air on April 6th, the network has released few clips this week, in which Tim Cook bashed against Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg and his company are facing boycotts and investigations over the ongoing fiasco.Regarding this fiasco, Tim Cook stated “If we monetized our customer, if our customer was our product, we could make a ton of money,” Cook said. “We’ve elected not to do that … We’re not going to traffic in your personal life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty,” he said.
Cook also said that it is preceding time to regulate Facebook. “I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation,” he said. “However, I think we’re beyond that here.”Last week Tim Cook also stated regarding social media that, “I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary.”Tim Cook commenting against Facebook is not new, in 2015, Cook stated, “When an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product,” he wrote in an open letter to Apple customers in 2014.
Mark Zuckerberg had already apologised against the debacle and in newspaper ads in the UK as well.“You are not our product,” Cook declared. “You are our customer. You are a jewel, and we care about the user experience, and we’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Tim Cook said in Chicago’s hall event.However, Tim Cook is not only the one tech giant bashing Facebook, SpaceX’s Elon Musk had also deleted his rocket company’s Facebook pages, which had 2.6 million followers, and later tweeted What’s Facebook? on his Twitter account.
