The debate on the protection of privacy begins to contrast technology with technology

This week in Brussels, Apple CEO Tim Cook praised what he calls the "data industrial complex" created by the technology industry and also called on the United States to adopt comprehensive regulation in digital privacy. Apple has been focusing on privacy protection for the past two years, but it was a platform for two of the world's largest technology companies, Facebook and Google. It should be noted that it is easy for Apple to defend confidentiality when its offering is a closed ecosystem in which the company controls all aspects of the technology. We address this issue in Quality Assurance, the Friday segment, in which we take a closer look at a great technological history.

Molly has been talking to Tony Romm, a Washington Post-based political reporter. The following is a transcript of their conversation.

Tony Romm: I think Tim Cook is pretty frustrated with Silicon Valley. It's certainly not the only one these days. For the company, however, Apple has been able to do so because its business model is so different from that of a company like Facebook and Google. Both companies rely on the collection of data about you and their transformation into information that can then be sold to advertisers. It's like that that they monetize things. With Apple, it's different. We are talking about the sale of iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro. Apple CEO Tim Cook is a little easier to talk about these things than his peers.

Molly Wood: The former Facebook security officer, Alex Stamos, added that Tim Cook was a bit hypocritical because the company tolerates Chinese censorship … Essentially, nobody knows how to save billions of dollars by selling of technology.

Romm: Yes, and even beyond what Alex Stamos reported in his tweets … Do not forget that when you're on your iPhone, when you use the search feature, you're using Google search. There has always been an agreement between Apple and Google for research. So, some of the things that Tim Cook regrets when he talks about privacy are things that the iPhone allows in some ways to activate by prompting you to use Google search in certain settings. But I think this is the biggest problem here, that for many of these companies, their problems with governments are very complex and very diverse.

Wood: Should a technology company be framing the conversation right now, especially a conversation about privacy regulations?

Romm: Well, whether they do it or not, they certainly are. And that 's because these companies do not want to be regulated in a way that affects their ability to collect information and monetize it. And many of them are very worried, especially because of what has happened in Europe and California in recent years. Europe has very severe restrictions on how companies can collect and use information. And then, California went ahead and created its own version of this kind of GDPR, as we call it, for the United States. These companies do not want to be forced to respect multiple sets of rules in different parts of the country. That's why you see them talking a lot about regulation. Because it is in their interest to define the rules, to participate in the discussion, so that they are not subject to the regulations put in place by governments.

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