It’s been 47 years since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak got together in that garage of the former’s parents to create the largest company ever seen in all of human history. Something like this could not come out of the minds of two “normal” people. Neither Steves was. His intelligence and his vision is within the reach of very few, and that continues to show.
Steve Wozniak—Woz, to friends—was Apple’s number two for many years. However, in 1983 he left, and dedicated himself to living life, working on other projects, philanthropy, and so on. However, if there is one thing he is very secretive about, it is privacy. He believes that it can be achieved absolutely, but making many changes in our habits.
“Sometimes I want to go back in time”
Steve Wozniak hardly makes use of social networks. He tweets very occasionally if a friend asks him to, he has left Facebook behind because he “chokes on so many unknown friends”, he avoids Google as much as he can, and admits that he uses TikTok, but only one hour a day to watch animal rescue videos.
He says that most of them know that social networks are watching them. It looks good. Whoever wants or needs that socialization, go ahead, no problem for him. Of course, he does not need it in any of its forms, so has decided to ignore it all and just focus on yourself — except for the cats on TikTok but who doesn’t like cats?
“I find many advantages to the things of the past”
All this I tell you about Wozniak, He said it almost a year ago in an interview with the world. He seems like a kind of fortune teller, because he spoke a lot about privacy, and how social networks are a way of giving up on it, which, although it seems legal, he does not share, and now Meta has been fined 1,200 million euros precisely for this.
The European Union has today filed the largest fine in history related to data protection against Meta (formerly Facebook). It seems that they did not comply with the General Data Protection Regulation when Send European user data to the United States.
The company has already received fines for similar situations with Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which it owns, but they had never reached this economic level. Meta has said that it will appeal the decision, and that we should not fear any type of cut to its services in the old continent. Even so, this decision of the Union can set a precedent in terms of privacy on social networks.
As of today, Meta has five months to fix the flaws in its process and stop sending European user data to the US. It appears that an agreement is already being hammered out to see exactly how these situations will be handled going forward. , but nothing is defined yet. In any case, it seems that Wozniak was quite clear on this before the fineand if the man was right, then you have to give it to him.
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