Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak deactivated his Facebook page yesterday to make a point. He told USA Today, "Users provide every detail of their life to Facebook and... Facebook makes a lot of advertising money off this. The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back."
Wozniak said he'd rather pay for Facebook than have his personal information exploited for advertising.
This notion of being exploited flies in the face of what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told Vox last week: "The reality here is that if you want to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world, then there are a lot of people who can’t afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people."
Zuckerberg will begin his Congressional testimony on Tuesday, April 10, after news of the Cambridge Analytica data "leak" led to calls for action against Facebook.
Zuckerberg will have a lot of privacy related changes to talk about, as SecureWorld reported last week.
