It is not something that is usually usual since Tim Cook, and the company he is in charge of, usually focuses on improving their company and not on seeing what the rest is doing, but of course this year everything is not going as they had planned and an attack on other companies do not hurt at a time like this.
Cook focuses on directly attacking companies and user privacy. In a recent interview, the CEO of Apple explained that more and more business is being done with user data and this is something negative for everyone, so a law that regulates this would not be something so crazy and it is precisely what you are asking for.
Cook, like the majority of Apple users we are clear that personal data is not used to negotiate with other companies, so "privacy is assured" but at the same time limits the capacity of some of its services. Many of today's companies take advantage of a loophole to take advantage of their customer data and profit directly by selling it to third parties.
Column of Time clarifies that this "shadow economy" is rampant and the United States government does not lift a finger to stop what are known as data brokers who sell their clients' information to third parties without anything stopping them. Axciom, Experian and Oracle appear at the top of this list but there are many more companies that market with the data obtained from their customers, in many cases without them being aware of it.
Actually, last October Apple with its CEO Tim Cook, at the forefront, already spoke and criticized this issue in Brussels. On the other hand some experts in the field say that Cook is a hypocrite because the Cupertino company conducts business similar to the ones he is criticizing in China. In any case, regulating with a Law the privacy of the users is not something so crazy but in the whole world and not only in the places that Apple is interested in.
