Apple CEO Biggest Concern for the Century

Apple is no stranger to controversies around data. They’ve regularly been accused of collecting data and failing to announce it. They also have used their ubiquitous iPhones to track users wherever they may be. Despite the problems of the past, it would seem that Apple and their CEO Tim Cook are turning over a new leaf. How so? In a recent interview with Fast Company magazine, Cook put data privacy right below the climate as one of the major issues of the day. He went further and expressed concern that protections for end-to-end encryption were being weakened. Apple’s end-to-end encryption for its users first became an issue following a shooting in San Bernardino a few years ago. The shooters were iPhone users and the FBI very much wanted Apple to unlock it for them so they could use the phone’s information to determine if the shooters were acting on their own or if they were part of a larger terrorist cell. Much to the surprise of many, Cook refused, even though the terrorists were already dead. The