WhatsApp cofounders Jan Koum and Brian Acton left as well for similar reasons, said The Sun in a report.Ī major concern with Messenger has already been there with the app already allowing strangers to contact people without even knowing their phone numbers. Instagram’s founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger left the company in 2018 they were reportedly miffed by Zuckerberg’s “increased grip” on Instagram. Zuckerberg’s clash with dozens of WhatsApp employees over the merger during a staff meeting in December was also reported. Zuckerberg has been talking about this integration for months, but was met with “heavy opposition”, a report by The Sun said. Other significant trade-offs could be made as well, Stamos and others were quoted in a report by Reuters. This would mean more users to be targeted for more advertising for the combined strength of the user base of Instagram and Messenger. If the metadata is integrated, it will allow Facebook to learn more about users, leading to identifying linkers such as phone numbers and email addresses even if the users are availing services independently of each other. However, concern remains as end-to-end encryption does not always conceal metadata, an information about the participants of the conversation – this data, researchers are concerned, might be shared. “My fear was that they were going to drop end-to-end encryption,” former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, who teaches at Stanford University was quoted as saying by Reuters.
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