Friday 22 January 2016
WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum penned a blog post in 2014 in an attempt to alleviate concerns users may have about its on-going negotiations before the Facebook acquisition finalized. In short, users were worried about what would happen to the privacy and anonymity they enjoyed with the service when Facebook took over. Koun talked about his time growing up in the USSR in the 1980s and how fear that communications were being monitored led him and his mother to move the United States before stating: Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around…
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