Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak deleted his Facebook account last year and is now telling anyone willing to listen to do the same before it’s too late.
TMZ interviewed Wozniak at Reagan National Airport in D.C. last Friday and asked him if he’s troubled by Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms infringing on his privacy. Woz responded by saying social platforms are eavesdropping on our private conversations, and sending personal data to advertisers. With the lack of privacy on social media, he said, most people should delete their accounts.
“There are many different kinds of people, and some the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy,” Woz told TMZ.
“But to many like myself, my recommendation is—to most people—you should figure out a way to get off Facebook.”
Woz suggested, that at this point, there’s no way to stop the invasion of privacy by Big Tech.
“But, everything about you… 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 told TMZ.
“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,” Woz said.
Woz’s solution: allow social media companies to give users a choice of premium subscription plans, one where they pay to have their data more secure.
“People think they have a level of privacy they don’t. 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.”
In an email response last April, Woz told USA Today that Facebook makes a lot of advertising money from personal information voluntarily shared with the company.
Woz said he’d rather pay for Facebook – adding that Apple “makes money off of good products, not off of you. As they say, with Facebook, you’re the product.”
What is far more fascinating to us is that it took years for brilliant people such as Wozniak to grasp what was obvious to most others, even if those “others” are what the dormant, quiet and largely daft majority, would call “conspiracy theorists.”
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Another limited hangout by intelligence to fuck with your mind?
Lots of Wozniak references in this paper.
http://milesmathis.com/jobs.pdf
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Lucky for you.
Send them money and “trust” that they will not “share” your info or listen in.
That is brilliant.
Why hasn’t someone thought of that before.
“Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as “surveillance companies.” Their rebranding as “social media” is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.” ~ Edward Snowden
Facebook is a quasi private CIA sponsored Cattle Herd Management Program that serves as another tag in your ear and is therefore fascist.
CIA=possibly, but DARPA = definitely. Facebook is Lifelock, shut down at DARPA and risen in the private sector as Facebook, even the Board of Directors made the shift.
Look at Zuck…look at his wife…just playin the part.
The future of social networking. Create your own.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmjde/facebook-and-twitter-suck-so-heres-how-to-make-your-own-social-media-network
Never had a Facebook page . Don’t want one. They are watching and listening to us all the time. I like my smart phone but ” they ” know where I am all the time .
With ya, BB.
The above is not Facebook.
The Corbett Report just put out an excellent video/doc about the ties between the CIA and Silicon Valley. The internet was always a military/intelligence construct from the beginning and many in that “community” had always intended to make it about intelligence gathering on the livestock. Facebook literally got funded by the investment side of the CIA after the cold reception people had to a similar project where people were to carry a physical device (pre smartphone and early 2000s) to “live journal” their movements and activity. Now dupes do this willingly and provide all the metadata and info. the spooks in the alphabet goon agencies could ever dream of having.
What is far more fascinating to us is that it took years for brilliant people such as Wozniak to grasp what was obvious to most others, even if those “others” are what the dormant, quiet and largely daft majority, would call “conspiracy theorists.” – from the article
Old Pangloss said Woz lost his marbles in a skiing accident and became Apple’s Fifth Beatle. Steve Jobs made Apple what it is today, a Chinese company on US soil.
From the get-go any skeptic could have seen that google was sinister and never to be trusted-and that was long before buttbook was conceived. What amazes is the parallels to Hilterism and the tactics used during the 1930’s to take complete control.
Something about free lunches will never sink in-at least with those who have never worked an honest day in their life. Is it any wonder that Bernie cherishes giving away all the free stuff?
You went from evil Gurgle to Hitler to free lunch in three quick leaps and I still missed your point.
Connect the dots: Woz suggests fb is bad for your health; Gurgle, Hitler, free stuff likewise all bad for your health, metaphorically speaking. Said another way: bad shit has a way of coming back again and again yet the lower IQ stars of our world never see it that way. That is why the bad guys have such an easy time taking over. Just do as Bernie does: offer ’em free stuff (and have the working stiff pick up the tab).
Facebook 2 billion accounts
P.T. Barnum,” there’s a sucker born every minute”
I tried deleting my FB account. Good luck, it’s impossible I think. All I could do is delete posts and scramble my personal info.