Apple’s Tim Cook calls for privacy bill with right to delete data

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 12, 2018 Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple event in Cupertino, California. - Cook, on January 17, 2019, called on US lawmakers to pass privacy legislation enabling consumers to see and delete their harvested online personal data from a central clearinghouse. (Photo by NOAH BERGER / AFP)

WASHINGTON: Apple chief executive Tim Cook called on US lawmakers on Jan 17 to pass privacy legislation enabling consumers to see and delete their harvested online personal data from a central clearinghouse. 

Cook, writing in Time magazine, offered his view as the US Congress was set to consider tougher enforcement of privacy and data protection for online platforms.