蘋果CEO庫克表示政府對科技公司監管很合理

Though Apple CEO Tim Cook is not a fan of the idea of government regulation of tech companies, he admits discussion about it is "fair" because data privacy is a burgeoning issue.

雖然蘋果公司首席執行官蒂姆·庫克不是“政府應對科技公司採取監管行爲”這個觀點的強烈支持者，但他日前承認，關於這一問題的討論是很合理的，因爲數據隱私是一個日益嚴峻的問題。

"Generally, for me, I'm not a big fan of regulation, I think self-regulation is the best," Cook said in a CNN interview.

庫克在接受CNN採訪時表示：“總體而言，對我來說，我不太喜歡（外界）監管。因爲我認爲自我監管是最好的。”

"But when it's not working, and in some cases it's not working, you have to ask yourself what form of regulation might be good. And I think it's a fair question many people are asking at this point."

“但當自我監管不起作用--在某些情況下不起作用時--你必須問問自己，還有什麼樣的監管形式纔可能是好的。我認爲，在當下這個時候，很多人能提出這樣一個問題是非常公平合理的。”

Cook added that Apple's stance is that "privacy is a fundamental human right."

庫克補充稱，蘋果的立場是“隱私是一項基本的人權”。

"The privacy thing has gotten totally out of control," Cook said. "I think most people are not aware of who is tracking them, how much they're being tracked, and sort of the large amounts of detailed data that are out there about them."

庫克說：“我認爲隱私問題已經完全失控。我認爲大多數人都不知道到底是誰在跟蹤他們，他們被跟蹤了多少，以及有多少關於他們的詳細數據被泄露了出去。”

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this year while testifying before Congress that he was open to governmental regulation on Facebook and other social media and tech companies, as long as it was the right regulation.

今年早些時候，Facebook創始人兼首席執行官馬克·扎克伯格在國會作證時曾公開表示，他對政府監管Facebook和其他社交媒體及科技公司持開放態度，只要規定是合理的。