WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum quits over privacy disagreements with Facebook
by Olivia Solon in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#3P2YK)
WhatsApp was built with a focus on privacy and a disdain for ads, but the Facebook-owned service is now under pressure to make money
The chief executive and co-founder of WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app, is leaving the company over disagreements about privacy and encryption.
Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook's board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post.
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