People Who Value Their Privacy Should Get Off Facebook, Says Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has slammed Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg before, for violating people's privacy and abusing their data.

Now he's made another comment, saying the people that value their privacy should find a way to leave the platform.

He suggested that the only way to get the company to stop invading people's privacy is to get the hell off it. He also, as an aside, mentioned another theory that's been doing the rounds over the years, that people's phones could be listening to them and there's "almost no way to stop it".

Wozniak himself publicly left Facebook last year, deleting his account in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. He's urged other people to do the same.

"There are many different kinds of people, and some of the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy," Wozniak told TMZ in an interview. "My recommendation is - to most people - you should figure out a way to get off Facebook."

On your devices spying on you he said, "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."

"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."

His suggestion is that social media platforms need to offer people the ability to pay for the services in order to avoid having their data sold and therefore retain their privacy.

"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."