Jan Koum Quotes

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.

It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models.

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.

We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.

It's interesting - what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it's that old saying, isn't it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There's a product for sale in you and your data.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.

Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.

I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.

I want to know what kind of personal, private, confidential information that Google collects from its users.

Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.

You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.

No entity in the history of the world has collected more information about you than Google. My office wants to know what exactly Google does with all of the information it's gathering.

Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

When Facebook launched, it dove headfirst into a brave new world. No one knew that the cost of connecting people all over the world for ad revenue was eventually going to be Cambridge Analytica.