Apple’s Tim Cook: EU’s new rules would destroy the security on iPhone

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Digital Markets Act, a new set of rules for digital platforms proposed by the European Commission, would “not be in the best interest of users.” Cook opposed the EU’s expansive rules by saying that they would allow users to sideload apps on the iPhone, which will destroy security and privacy on the device.

“The current DMA language that is being discussed would force sideloading on the iPhone,” Cook said Wednesday at the VivaTech conference in France. “That would destroy the security of the iPhone and a lot of privacy initiatives that we’ve built onto the App Store where we have privacy nutrition labels and app tracking transparency to get permission to track across apps.”