HK WHATSAPP Â © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LPIn the last four years since Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22 billion, the app has remained ad free. This was the primary reason WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017, according to his interview with Forbes published Wednesday, along with concerns about the way Facebook “probed” at the app’s end-to-end encryption. Facebook insists that messages sent between WhatsApp 1.5 billion users will remain encrypted, and that “there are no plans to change that,” according to a spokesperson. (Currently the only personal data that Facebook can derive from WhatsApp users is their phone number.) One lingering concern in security circles is that there are now fewer high-ranking advocates for encryption at Facebook than there were a year ago.

Source: Forbes September 27, 2018 19:55 UTC