JAN KUOM

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WhatsApp  co-founder jan kuom to quit in loss of privacy advocate at Facebook

 The co-founder of whatsapp,a messaging service owned by facebook Inc with more than 1 billion daily users, said on monday he was leaving the company, in a loss of one of the strongest advocates for privacy inside Facebook.Jan koum's plan to exit comes after clashing with parent company over whatsapp strategy and facebook attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption,the washington post earlier reported,citing people familiar with the internal discussions.

Its been almost a decade since brain and I started whatsapp, and its been an amazing journey with some of the best people,"koum ,whatsapp chief executive said in post on his facebook page referring to co-founder brain action."But it is time for to move on".He did not give date for his departure and could not immediately be reached for comment.Action left the messaging service company in september to start a foundation,after spending eight years with whatsapp.

Facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg commented on koum's post saying he was grateful for  what koum taught him about encryption"and its ability to make power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands.Those values will be at the heart of whatsapp".Facebook has battled european regulators over a plan to use whatsapp user data,including phone numbers,to develop products and target ads.The plan is suspended,but whatsapp said last week it still wanted to move forward eventually.stanford alumnus action and Ukrainian immigrant koum co-founded whatsapp in 2009.Facebook bought whatsapp in 2014 for $19billion in cash and stock.

Whatsapp,a pun on the phrase "what's up?",grew in popularity in part because its encrypted are stored on user's smart phones and not on company servers,making the service more private.Concerns about Facebook's handling of personal information have grown since the social network's admission in march that the data of millions of users was wrongly harvested by political consultancy cambridge analytica.

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