Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, has formally deactivated his Facebook account.
Wozniak, who has not been involved with day-to-day operations at Apple in decades, nonetheless has a legendary status in Silicon Valley.
In an email interview with USA Today, Wozniak wrote that he was no longer satisfied with Facebook, knowing that it makes money off of user data.
"The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back," he wrote.
His Sunday announcement to his Facebook followers came just ahead of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s scheduled testimony before Congress on Tuesday.
In a call with reporters last week, Zuckerberg said that the number of people who have undertaken such efforts remained small.
"I did not feel that this is what people want done to them," added Wozniak. »