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Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again made the case for data privacy

and an essay for Time magazine Cook called on Congress to pass comprehensive federal

privacy legislation a landmark package of reforms that protect and empower the consumer.

In a speech last year, Cook says he laid out four principles that he says

should guide the legislation,

the right to have personal data minimized,

the right to know what data is being collected and why, the right

to easily access, correct and delete your personal data, and finally, the right to data security. Now he's added to that list calling for data transparency.

The example he lays out in the essay involves an online purchase. You pay for something, that thing is sent to you, and you

sort of assume that that's that. But Cook says information about that purchase, and thus

about you, is sold to a data broker or data brokers. Companies

that Cook says exist purely to collect your information, package it, and sell it to yet another

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