Former Apple publicist: Kiss your privacy goodbye

Andy Cunningham, a former Apple publicist, says the new generation’s lack of confidentiality when it comes to personal privacy will have big consequences.

“Privacy doesn’t matter as much to the younger generation as it does to our generation,” she told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on Thursday. “As time goes on, that’s going to continue in that direction.”

Even as the embattled social media giant Facebook has taken steps to change its data and privacy posturing following the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Cunningham said social media users can’t make their own rules.

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of Facebook are not our inalienable rights,” she said. “So if you don’t want your privacy disrupted, then you have to stay off Facebook all together.”

She said it would be a challenge to protect social media platforms’ business models while protecting personal privacy.

“Technology has just moved to a point now where you can either have access to community and access to television… but the price we pay is our privacy,” she said. “Now I think we can get privacy, but then the price we are going to pay for that is we aren’t going to have access to Google, Facebook and the Stu Varney show.”