In a blog
post on the official WhatsApp blog, CEO Koum “set the record straight”
and clarified to users that the company won’t change its privacy policy
and user data would remain crucial.
Jan Koum took to his company’s blog to
reassure users fo Whatsapp that the company won’t start gathering
additional user data to feed Facebook’s massive advertising business.
Facebook is known for leveraging its users data, sometimes even without
their knowledge, to serve well-targeted ads.
“You don’t have to give us your name and
we don’t ask for your email address,” he wrote. “We don’t know your
likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location.
None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and
we really have no plans to change that.”
He also emphasizes that the deal with
Facebook is a partnership and none of the principles will change. “If
partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we
wouldn’t have done it. Our future partnership with Facebook will not
compromise the vision that brought us to this point,” he added.
WhatsApp has faced a lot of questions regarding privacy post Facebook acquisition.
Facebook announced its plans to acquire the messaging service for $19
billion. Mark Zuckerberg also stated in a recent interview that Facebook
had no plan to put ads in WhatsApp, but instead his primary goal is to
reach 1 billion monthly active users by year-end with a host of new
services like free voice calling.
Source: WhatsApp
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