Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Says Most People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak deleted his personal Facebook accountlast yearand is now telling everyone else they should do the same . Woz was stop by TMZ at Reagan National Airport in D.C. lately and warned that the want of privacy on the platform is n’t deserving it for most people , tot a warning more generally , “ who knows if my cellphone is listening right on now ? ”

“ There are many different kinds of people , and some the benefit of Facebook are deserving the loss of privateness , ” Wozniak toldTMZ . “ But to many like myself , my recommendation is — to most people — you should figure out a way to get off Facebook . ”

Woz state that while he ’s worried about the invasions of privateness by Big Tech , he did n’t think there was anything that could be done to stop it .

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“ But , everything about you … I mean , they can measure out your twinkling with lasers now , they can take heed to you with a lot of devices . Who have intercourse if my cellphone ’s listening right now . Alexa has already been in the news show a great deal , ” Woz evidence TMZ .

“ So I worry because you ’re having conversations that you call back are private … You ’re saying discussion that really should n’t be take heed to , because you do n’t expect it . But there ’s almost no way to halt it , ” Woz said .

Wozniak originally dumped Facebook just three calendar week after the Cambridge Analytica malicious gossip broke in March of 2018 . That scandal bring out that private firm were using Facebook data to aid pull wires the 2016 presidential electionin favor of President Donald Trumpby monitoring user moods and behaviors on the platform . Facebook has since been implicate in plenitude of other evildoing , including being complicit ingenocide in Myanmaraccording to a report from the UN . Facebook admitted that its platform had been used to “ stir up division and incite offline violence . ”

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Wozniak ’s solution , which you may hear in the the entire TMZ video onYouTube , is one that has admittedly been floated before : Just let everyone pay for their privacy .

“ mass call up they have a level of privacy they do n’t . Why do n’t they give me a choice ? Let me make up a certain amount , and you ’ll keep my information more secure and private then everybody else handing it to adman . ”

good of luck with that , Woz . Best of luck to us all , really .

William Duplessie