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Tim Cook: ‘I’m proud to be gay’

That Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay couldn’t even be call called an open secret because it has been so widely understood and on several occasions reported. Yet Cook himself had never publicly acknowledged his sexual orientation.

Today that changed.

Writing himself – and eloquently — on BloombergBusinessweek:

For years, I’ve been open with many people about my sexual orientation. Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I’m gay, and it doesn’t seem to make a difference in the way they treat me. Of course, I’ve had the good fortune to work at a company that loves creativity and innovation and knows it can only flourish when you embrace people’s differences. Not everyone is so lucky.

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Apple’s Tim Cook talks privacy: ‘We’re not like all the others’

Apple has launched a new privacy website to explain what it does and doesn’t do with user data. On the front page, a letter from CEO Tim Cook explains that Apple views privacy differently to other internet services who, he says, view users as products and not customers.
Naked Security – Sophos

Former Thomas Cook subsidiary fined £150000 over internet security breach – Telegraph.co.uk


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Former Thomas Cook subsidiary fined £150000 over internet security breach
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Former Thomas Cook subsidiary fined £150,000 over internet security breach. Hacker stole more than 1.1 million customers' personal details – including credit and debit card numbers – from Essential Travel Ltd in 'staggering' security lapse. A hacker

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Apple’s COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Apple’s COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO  —  Apple’s Steve Jobs has resigned from his position as CEO and Apple has just announced that COO Tim Cook has taken over as CEO.  —  As COO, Cook was responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end …

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