Tim Cook, from Apple, warns that the high-tech sector will soon be regulated

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This year has been horrible for the public image of Silicon Valley.

With a multitude of problems such as misuse of data and political interference laid bare over the past 12 months, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Axios on HBO this government regulation of the technology sector is "inevitable".

"In general, I'm not a big fan of regulation," he said in an interview with Apple's headquarters in Cupertino.

"I am a strong supporter of the free market, but we have to admit that the free market does not work, and it has not worked here, I think it is inevitable that there is a some level of regulation … I think the congress and the administration at some point will pass something ".

Cook made the comment after stating that technology creators were not trying to hurt, but that they did not anticipate the "negative things for which it could be used".

This is the latest example of Cook's thinly veiled criticism by Facebook. Without naming last month, cook businesses in groups that collect your personal data and place "privacy benefits".

He called for a federal law on the protection of privacy, in which a person has the right to see his personal data reduced to a minimum, the right to know what data the user is collected and why, the right users to access their data and the right to security.

In the past, Apple had taken a firm stance on privacy, going hand in hand with government agencies, as evidenced by its infamous battle against the FBI and the blockage of hacking tools used by security forces. order to penetrate the iPhone.