Apple’s Tim Cook calls for privacy action as reforms in focus

New York: Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook took to Twitter on Monday to join a number of voices calling for greater privacy protections. Earlier this month, in a column published by Time, Cook called on the Federal Trade Commission to track data brokers and monitor how they use peoples digital information. Elsewhere on the day being dubbed Data Privacy Day, Adobe Inc. announced it was teaming up with OneTrust to develop new tools and offerings that address a few of the unique privacy challenges in the mobile space, while Facebook Inc. launched a Privacy and Data Use Hub. This came as the European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova said Facebook has to do much more to restore trust of the regulators and many of its users to show compliance with the EU's new data protection rules, known as GDPR.