Privacy Row Between Facebook and Apple Is Just The Beginning Privacy Row Between Facebook and Apple Is Just The Beginning Competition in Silicon Valley can be brutal, but for much of the past decade, Apple and Facebook have shared a mutually beneficial relationship, if not always a friendly one.
Updated: February 04, 2021 11:11 am IST
Apple CEO Tim Cook seemed to take a shot at Facebook at a conference on Jan 28. (FILE)
It s tough to pinpoint exactly where things with Facebook and Apple went wrong, but like so many relationships gone sour, the first signs of real trouble looked like petty sniping. In March 2018, Facebook Inc. was in the midst of a scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and was facing serious questions about its stewardship of its users personal data. A commentator on MSNBC asked Apple Inc Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook what he would do if he were in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg s shoes. I wouldn t be in this situation, Cook said
Elizabeth Renieris
Elizabeth M. Renieris, a technology and human rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, has been appointed founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
Launched in 2020, the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab aims to address ethical questions associated with the development and use of emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning. The lab serves as the applied research arm of Notre Dame’s Technology Ethics Center (ND-TEC), which develops and supports multi- and interdisciplinary research on questions related to the impact of technology on humanity.