Tim Cook: tech firms should prepare for 'inevitable' regulation

Apple CEO predicts Congress will pass laws targeting big US technology firms

Big US technology companies should brace themselves for "inevitable" regulation, according to Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook.

Cook predicted the US would pass new laws targeting technology firms "at some point" to prevent the misuse of personal data, after a leak of Facebook user information to Cambridge Analytica that resulted in Mark Zuckerberg being hauled in front of Congress.