Privacy Groups Respond To WhatsApp Founder/CEO Jan Koum’s Blog Post With Updated FTC Filing

The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy -- which filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission earlier this month against Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of cross-platform messaging company WhatsApp, alleging that the privacy of current WhatsApp users will be affected by Facebook’s use of their information -- filed an update with the FTC Friday, in response to a blog post by WhatsApp Co-Founder and CEO Jan Koum earlier this week.

WhatsApp650The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy — which filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission earlier this month against Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of cross-platform messaging company WhatsApp, alleging that the privacy of current WhatsApp users will be affected by Facebook’s use of their information — filed an update with the FTC Friday, in response to a blog post by WhatsApp Co-Founder and CEO Jan Koum earlier this week.

The update, embedded below, contained press reports about the acquisition, reaction from commenters, and a plea that the commission examine the Facebook-WhatsApp deal with far greater scrutiny than it devoted to Google’s acquisition of home-thermostat manufacturer Nest in January.

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