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Why WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton Tweeted 바카라˜#DeleteFacebook바카라™

Cambridge Analytica, with links to President Donald Trump바카라™s 2016 campaign, has allegedly collected data from personal profiles of many Facebook users.

With the #DeleteFacebook trending on Twitter, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has joined in the campaign directed against the social media giant for letting a political data firm, Cambridge Analytica, violate the data privacy of 50 million users.

Cambridge Analytica, with links to President Donald Trump바카라™s 2016 campaign, has allegedly collected data from personal profiles of many Facebook users. Even deleted accounts on Facebook may still be open to harvesting of information by the social media and giant and other apps, according to a report in .

Acton, whose product Whatsapp was bought by Facebook in 2014,  on Wednesday morning put out a tweet saying, 바카라˜It is time, #DeleteFacebook바카라™. He has not disclosed yet anything more. 

In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp in a deal of cash and stock worth $19 billion, Facebook바카라™s largest acquisition. Acton quit Whatsapp in 2017 and started his own non-profit organization, Signal. He said the organisation focused on 바카라œthe intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications,바카라 according to . Also, the Signal Foundation will focus on communications privacy, he said.

The WhasApp founders Acton and Jan Koum have said the latest version of the Whatsapp is end-to-end encrypted by default. Every call you make, and every message, photo, video, file, and voice message you send including group chats is going to remain private.

In a  article an ex-Facebook insider has said covert data harvesting was routine for Facebook. Sandy Parakilas told Guardian that Facebook had terms of service and settings that 바카라œpeople didn바카라™t read or understand바카라 and the company did not use its enforcement mechanisms, including audits of external developers, to ensure data was not being misused바카라.

Parakilas was the platform operations manager at Facebook and policed data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, he said that he had warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach, according to the Guardian.

On the other hand, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg refuses to answer any questions on user data being used for political purposes. He is also being asked to provide more information by the US Congress and British parliament on the same. 

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