Wozniak: Facebook is 'not ethical,' but he is sticking with Swarm
The tech giant tells us why he and some good friends are leaving Facebook. USA TODAY
PHILADELPHIA -- Steve Wozniak may not have been a power user of Facebook, but the Apple co-founder hopes his departure from the social network will cause other users to reconsider how much data they share on social media.
"Everything we are doing is being watched or monitored, known to other people," Wozniak said in an interview Monday. "If you post something and I click 'Like,' it’s sort of my inside feeling, I have a commonality with you and maybe you will even see my ‘Like’ and know we are friends. You know what, it’s being sold to an advertiser. I’m sorry that’s not ethical."
Escalating concern for the lack of privacy and security on Facebook led the tech visionary to leave the platform, he told USA TODAY Sunday via email. On Monday, he sat down to discuss his reasoning and concerns with USA TODAY in a private hotel room in downtown Philadelphia where he was scheduled to be Tuesday's keynote speaker at a healthcare conference.
"I got a lot of good out of" being on Facebook, he said. "Seeing which people thought certain ways, maybe it was politics, a lot of great animal videos, I’m just an animal lover. You know, it took so much of my time for what it was worth. I can give it up."
Wozniak says he got a Facebook account quite a while ago, but didn't actually use it much. "Then one day I got a Foursquare account to share my location for my wife to see where I was ... (Foursquare) was sharing (his location) on Facebook and Twitter," he said. "Just a few months ago I started clicking Facebook on my phone for the first time scrolling through 5,000 friends that I don’t know. And I am scrolling through so much stuff I will never see."
Then some of his friends left the platform, Wozniak says. " A few good, close friends, the ones that I respected the most for their integrity and their honesty, their ethics and all that, they dropped Facebook in just the last week in the wake of this big scandal," he said.
The potential misuse of Facebook user data by political targeting firm Cambridge Analytica is one of the crises facing the social network that brings CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington this week to talk with lawmakers and testify at Congressional hearings. Facebook last week estimated as many as 87 million people, mostly in the United States, may have had their data improperly shared by the firm, which assisted in the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
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source:https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/04/10/wozniak-facebook-not-ethical-but-he-sticking-swarm/501292002/
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