There has been a lot said and written about Whatsapp since it was taken over by Facebook almost a month ago now. The speculations about the future of the IM services as well as how privacy of Whatsapp would be affected have been dominating the news sections. In fact, given Facebook is not known to be the cleanest player when it comes to privacy, it looks like most
experts are willing to trickle the same down to Whatsapp. There was a recent report which suggested with a couple of simple steps, it is easy to decipher the Whatsapp chat messages of anybody that were saved on the memory of the device.
However, Whatsapp CEO Jan Koum has come out with a rather strong statement in an attempt to set the record straight and assure it’s users that their privacy would not be compromised. He took to his blog to make the following statement:
Although, the statement does not go into details of what and how, but you still feel that at least Whatsapp remains connected to its users and would address any of the concerns that they might have, at least in the shorter term.
experts are willing to trickle the same down to Whatsapp. There was a recent report which suggested with a couple of simple steps, it is easy to decipher the Whatsapp chat messages of anybody that were saved on the memory of the device.
However, Whatsapp CEO Jan Koum has come out with a rather strong statement in an attempt to set the record straight and assure it’s users that their privacy would not be compromised. He took to his blog to make the following statement:
Although, the statement does not go into details of what and how, but you still feel that at least Whatsapp remains connected to its users and would address any of the concerns that they might have, at least in the shorter term.
