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"I think that this certain situation is so dire and has become so large that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary. The ability of anyone to know what you’ve been browsing about for years, who your contacts are, who their contacts are, things you like and dislike and every intimate detail of your life - from my own point of view it shouldn’t exist."

Auch Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hatte dies in einem Interview zu dem Skandal bereits ins Spiel gebracht und sich offen für eine mögliche Regulierung gezeigt. Tim Cook hingegen merkte an, dass Apple bereits seit einigen Jahren davor gewarnt habe, dass eine solche Situation ohne Regulierung irgendwann eintreten könnte. Leider sei dies nun geschehen.

"We’ve worried for a number of years that people in many countries were giving up data probably without knowing fully what they were doing and that these detailed profiles that were being built of them, that one day something would occur and people would be incredibly offended by what had been done without them being aware of it. Unfortunately that prediction has come true more than once."