Our business is not based on having information about you. Youโre not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if theyโre making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.
Tim CookThe reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.
Tim CookI think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.
Tim Cook