WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton: 'I sold my users' privacy'

In March, around the time when the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal was shaking Facebook's foundations, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton publicly called people to #deletefacebook on Twitter. 

That wouldn't be so odd if he weren't one of two people who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for more than $19 billion four years earlier. 

It is time#deletefacebook

— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018

Acton lost as much as $850 million for leaving Facebook six months before that tweet, in Sept. 2017, because the final tranche of his stock option grants hadn't vested yet. Since then, he has been silent about his departure, but has now opened up in an interview with Forbes.  Read more...

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