Apple boss Tim Cook has a reputation for being soft-spoken and a little boring. His Twitter feed is replete with corporate platitudes. But when it comes to user privacy - "one of the top issues of the century" - he gets fired up.
In January, Mr Cook railed against "data brokers, purveyors of fake news, trackers and peddlers of division, hucksters just looking to make a quick buck".
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