Hadiri TIME 100 Summit, Tim Cook Bahas Regulasi Industri Teknologi

Cook juga merasa banyak perusahaan teknologi yang telah lalai serta mengabaikan banyaknya kerugian sosial yang ditimbulkan dari berkembangnya industri teknologi yang mereka bangun.

Technology needs to be regulated. There are now too many examples where the no rails have resulted in a great damage to society. When things are out in society and they don’t represent the true cost, then you need to do something about it. … You have to regulate it. I’ve been on the regulation kick, which surprised even me, for a while, because I didn’t see companies laying the basic rails in place, and then refusing to step over those.

Ketika ditanya mengenai seberapa yakin Cook tentang regulasi yang telah disusun pemerintah AS, Cook dengan tegas menjawab, “Aku tidak yakin.”

Tim Cook sendiri memiliki pandangan yang sejalan dengan General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) di Eropa yang telah menyusun regulasi tetap terutama masalah privasi pengguna.

I’m not confident (crowd laughs) is the short version of the statement. I think this is an example where Europe is more likely to come up with something. GDPR isn’t ideal, but GDPR was a step in the right direction. This is on the privacy side, obviously.