Steve Wozniak , who co - founded Apple alongside Steve Case , has revealed that he tries to avoid using Google and Facebook due to their data - collecting operations . " You give them your data and you just click , ‘ okay , I accept this . ’ They own everything , they can sell it for anything , " Wozniak told an audience at the C2 business conference in Montreal . Consumers should be entitled to " some portion " of the profits made from advertising based on data they collect , he added .
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs, has revealed that he tries to avoid using Google and Facebook due to their data-collecting operations. "You give them your data and you just click, ‘okay, I accept this.’ They own everything, they can sell it for anything," Wozniak told an audience at the C2 business conference in Montreal. Consumers should be entitled to "some portion" of the profits made from advertising based on data they supply, he added.