The former Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp, Neeraj Arora, has criticised Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, over the handling of the world’s largest messaging app, IgbereTV reports
WhatsApp has recorded over five billion downloads since it was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton. But the founders were not just the significant factor of the firm’s growth, Arora also played a crucial role when he joined in 2011, a year after the app was released on Google Playstore.
Arora also played a key role in the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook, now the tech builder says he regrets helping to negotiate the sale of the messaging platform which cost Zuckerberg $22 billion in 2014.
In a post on Twitter on Thursday, Arora, who now owns another messaging app, Hallo, criticised Zuckerberg for reneging on an agreement that protects WhatsApp users from third party interference.
“As we began talking through the acquisition, and made our stance very clear: No mining user data, No ads (ever), No cross-platform tracking. FB (Facebook) and their management agreed and we thought they believed in our mission.” he tweeted.
“Of course, that’s not what happened.” he wrote. Apparently, WhatsApp users’ data is now shared with Facebook, hence, users find adverts on Facebook relating to their discussion with contacts on WhatsApp
