https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18018686/tim-cook-apple-privacy-law-facebook-google-gdpr

Tim Cook is done with being polite about ad-tracking. At a privacy conference in Brussels this morning, Cook gave a fiery speech denouncing the current state of data collection and targeted misinformation, drawing on aspects of Google’s ad-targeting system and Facebook’s social profile-building practices. For Cook, that system of data collection, collation, and targeting amounts to a “data-industrial complex,” which threatens both privacy and democracy itself.

“This crisis is real,” the Apple CEO said. “It is not imagined, or exaggerated, or crazy.”