Tim Cook calls for strong U.S. privacy laws, says some tech firms are putting "profits over privacy"

Speaking today at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) in Brussels, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that businesses these days are creating a digital profile of each user that are swapped among each other. Saying that the trade in digital profiles among businesses has created a "data-industrial complex," Cook is asking the U.S. government to pass "a comprehensive federal privacy law."

Cook says that businesses collecting personal data belonging ...