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April 9, 2018 04:41 pm GMT
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Steve Wozniak promises to delete his Facebook account in protest
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica controversy, the #DeleteFacebook movement grows by the day.
This weekend, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joined its numbers. Wozniak told USA Today on Sunday that he's leaving Facebook out of concern for its treatment of data and privacy.
"Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and...Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this," he said. "The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back."
Wozniak reportedly said he'd rather pay for Facebook than expose his personal information to advertisers, and claimed that Apple's model is better. "Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you," he said. Read more...
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