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WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum is leaving Facebook after clashing over data privacy

Posted by M. C. on May 1, 2018

I don’t know anything about Jan Koum but obviously he isn’t dumb. He couldn’t see what Facebook is all about? He didn’t see the CIA/In-Q-Tel connection? Did Zuck con him with a pack of fake promises?

Koum’s concern with privacy appears genuine, that is the non sequitur. The real story would be interesting.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17304792/whatsapp-jan-koum-facebook-data-privacy-encryption

Nick Statt

WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum is leaving the company amid arguments with parent company Facebook over data privacy and the messaging app’s business model, according to a report from The Washington Post. Koum, together with his fellow co-founder Brian Acton, sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for an eye-popping sum of $19 billion, $3 billion of which consisted of Facebook stock granted to both Koum and Acton, who left the company back in September. Koum confirmed his departure in a personal Facebook posttoday… Read the rest of this entry »

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