“We don’t know your birthday. We don’t know your home address. We don’t know where you work. 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.”
Koum also says that their partnership with Facebook was made to allow them to work independently and autonomously. He made it pretty clear that they have no intentions of letting Facebook into their user database. “If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it.”
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There you go, now you can finally use Whatsapp without having to worry about Facebook sneaking in on your messages. Well, at least for now because Jan Koum is not really a man of his word. A month before selling Whatsapp, he stated that he’s never selling the messaging app to anyone but after four weeks he broke his promise. Facebook will eventually start using Whatsapp data for their evil needs or they would have paid $19 billion for nothing. It’s only a matter of time.
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