I sold my users' privacy: WhatsApp Founder on Facebook acquisition
WhatsApp Co-founder Brian Acton, who quit WhatsApp's parent company Facebook last year, has said, "I sold my usersâ privacy to a larger benefit...I live with that every day." Acton said he never developed a rapport with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who wanted to show advertisements in WhatsApp's Status feature. "Facebook isn't the bad guy...(they're) just very good businesspeople," he added.