What you need to know in advertising today
The amount of information about individual users stored online and on their phones is enormous, Cook said in an interview with Vice News Tonight on Tuesday. The tech industry hasn't done a good job of respecting and protecting that data, he said.
"I'm not a pro-regulation kind of person, I believe in the free market deeply," Cook said. But, he added, "when the free market doesn't produce a result that's great for society, you have to ask yourself: what do we need to do? And I think some level of government regulation is important to come out of that."
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Speaking during a panel at Advertising Week, serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk said that he thinks all of Facebook's negative media attention actually goes over users' heads, reports the Observer.
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