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Apple’s Tim Cook says US should use Europe’s strategy for fighting Big Brother

By James Langford
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Apple’s Tim Cook says US should use Europe’s strategy for fighting Big Brother

Big Brother, the elusive but omnipresent villain imagined by George Orwell, has crossed from dystopian fantasy to 21st-century life, to hear Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook tell it.

Earth’s 7.6 billion tenants are being tracked not through spies and television screens but smartphone apps, with the data leveraged by people more concerned with profit than political power.

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