WhatApp to leave Facebook after Data clash report.

 

WhatsApp co-founder and Facebook board member Jan Koum confirmed that he is breaking ties with his company’s parent; facebook. This is the second blow for Facebook, it happens after the Washington Post reported an alleged  “clash” Over Facebook data practices.

“it’s been almost a decade since Brian and I started WhatsApp. It’s been an amazing journey with some of the best people”

he posted on his personal Facebook page on yesterday.

“But it’s time for me to move on ”

he even included an ‘emotional’ tag indicating he is “sad”.
Jan Koum’s posts did not include any explanation as to why they are leaving. This points to WaPo’s Report as the loudest and most possible explanation at the moment.
A reporter Elizabeth Doshkins claims that the move came as a result of Koum’s disagreements with Facebooks attempts to use WhatsApp’s Personal data and weaken its encryption. The report describes how issues have gradually emerged after Facebook purchase the encrypted-messaging platform for $16 billion back in 2014. From the sound of things, the disagreements began taking shape before the company’s Cambridge analytical scandal.
The issues at stake include Facebooks demand for more user data being attached to WhatsApp profiles in spite of the app’s terms which promise that it would remain autonomous and operate independently. Dwoskins reports that during that change of Whatsapp’s terms of service, Facebook bosses wanted to create user-specific profiles that are linked to platform’s like Facebook and Instagram and thus be used “for ad- targeting or for Facebooks data-mining.”
According to the report, it is said that Koum was fighting Facebooks desire to make a new Whatsapp version that business. One that’s easier for businesses to use its tools. This would require weakening WhatsApp’s existing end-to-end encryption. A feature the company added to its then weak encrypted messaging services in 2016 if your keeping trace that 2016 rollout still had issues, including a lack of notifications when a user encryption key had changed.