HED: Apple v. Facebook: After years of stress, a legal fight looms
Facebook and Apple might be on the brink of a legal war.
Stress between Apple and Facebook have actually ebbed and flowed over the last years, but flared up again in 2018 after Apple CEO Tim Cook began cautioning of a “information industrial complex,” and of the risk of people losing control over their information to business that trade and sell it for profit.
Dylan Byers is a senior media reporter for NBC News based in Los Angeles.