Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wants you to get off Facebook By shegrot

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak deleted his personal Facebook account last year and is now telling everyone else they should do the same. Woz was stopped by TMZ at Reagan National Airport in D.C.
                         

recently and warned that the lack of privacy on the platform isn’t worth it for most people, adding a warning more generally, “who knows if my cellphone is He made reference to the smart speakers and other listening devices that are now commonly available, and which have prompted a variety of privacy concerns.

I mean, they can measure your heartbeat with lasers now, they can listen to you with a lot of devices. Who knows if my cellphone’s listening right now? Alexa has already been in the news a lot," he said.

“So I worry because you’re having conversations that you think are private... You’re saying words that really shouldn’t be listened to, because you don’t expect it. But there’s almost no way to stop it."

He went on to suggest that social media companies should offer people the ability to pay if they want to keep their data private, rather than having it used to sell advertising.

“People think they have a level of privacy they don’t," he said. "Why don’t they give me a choice? Let me pay a certain amount, and you’ll keep my data more secure and private then everybody else handing it to advertisers.”

listening right now?”

“There are many different kinds of people, and some the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy,” Wozniak told TMZ. “But to many like myself, my recommendation is—to most people—you should figure out a way to get off Facebook.”

He made reference to the smart speakers and other listening devices that are now commonly available, and which have prompted a variety of privacy concerns.

I mean, they can measure your heartbeat with lasers now, they can listen to you with a lot of devices. Who knows if my cellphone’s listening right now? Alexa has already been in the news a lot," he said.

“So I worry because you’re having conversations that you think are private... You’re saying words that really shouldn’t be listened to, because you don’t expect it. But there’s almost no way to stop it."

He went on to suggest that social media companies should offer people the ability to pay if they want to keep their data private, rather than having it used to sell advertising.

“People think they have a level of privacy they don’t," he said. "Why don’t they give me a choice? Let me pay a certain amount, and you’ll keep my data more secure and private then everybody else handing it to advertisers.”