'That's not to say we can count on that' going forward,' says Elevation Partners' McNamee, an early investor in Facebook and Google.
Amazon needs to articulate its policy around health data — but on the whole so far, the e-commerce giant has done a better job around online privacy than Facebook, tech investor and activist Roger McNamee told CNBC Monday.
McNamee was an early Facebook investor and an early advisor to co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But since the fallout from Russia's activities on the platform aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election and last year's Cambridge Analytica scandal, McNamee has really been a critic. "I can respect the people without respecting all the things that they do in the business," McNamee said of Zuckerberg in a "Squawk Alley" interview. And he said the same can be said for Amazon founder and chief Jeff Bezos."In fact, I'm very, very worried about many of the things that Amazon is doing with data. I do think we need to hold them to exactly the same standard.
Amazon was not immediately available to respond to CNBC's request for comments on McNamee's interview.
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