Apple CEO Tim Cook is creeped out by ads that follow him around the internet

On Friday, Cook was interviewed on MSNBC and said that online ads that follow users around the internet are creepy. He said, "To me it's creepy when I look at something and all of a sudden it's chasing me all the way across the web. I don't like that." The CEO also called privacy a "human right," and said that he is concerned with the way advertisers and others can gain access to personal data.
"We curate. We believe that...we don't want porn on our App Store...We want families to be able to feel comfortable there...We don't want hate speech on our App Store, right? And we don't want the ability to recruit terrorists on the App Store...And so, we're looking at every app in detail, what is it doing, is it doing what it's saying it's doing, is it meeting the privacy policy that they're stating, right? And so, we're always looking at that. Should we raise the bar even more? We're always looking at improving and raising the bar. But we do carefully review each app and police now. And we don't subscribe to the view that you have to let everybody in that wants to or if you don't, you don't believe in free speech."-Tim Cook, CEO, Apple
Cook was interviewed for a program called Revolution: Apple Changing the World. The interview was recorded the day after Apple's March 27th education event. During the event, Apple introduced its new sixth-generation iPad that supports the Apple Pencil.
source: MSNBC, CNET
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