“That’s the bad part. We buy their products. We sign up for these websites. Delete Facebook, right?”
Wednesday’s appearance, in which he shared the stage with Ellora Israni, a former Facebook software engineer and cofounder of women’s diversity in tech initiative She++, was only the second time that Acton has spoken publicly about the deterioration of his relationship with the social network and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit,” Actonin September, detailing the conflicts that eventually led to his departure.
“The capitalistic profit motive, or answering to Wall Street, is what’s driving the expansion of invasion of data privacy and driving the expansion of a lot of negative outcomes that we’re just not happy with,” he said. “I wish there were guardrails there. I wish there was ways to rein it in. I have yet to see that manifest, and that scares me.”
“WhatsApp’s business model was, we’ll give you service for a year for a dollar,” he said. “It was not extraordinarily money-making, and if you have a billion users… you’re going to have $1 billion in revenue per year. That’s not what Google and Facebook want. They want multi-billions of dollars.”
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