Tim Cook blasts 'weaponisation' of personal data and praises GDPRTim Cook blasts 'weaponisation' of personal data and praises GDPR

Media captionTim Cook: personal data being 'weaponised'

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has demanded a tough new US data protection law, in an unusual speech in Europe.

Referring to the misuse of "deeply personal" data, he said it was being "weaponised against us with military efficiency".

"We shouldn't

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