WhatsApp Founder Invites Internet Residents to Delete Facebook

SELIDIKI.COM, JAKARTA - Facebook is now being hit by the storms of crisis of confidence after the 50 million user accounts data revealed leaked to unauthorized parties.

This scandal gets the attention of many people, one of them a former founder of WhatsApp calling for solicitation "delete Facebook ".

Through his Twitter account, Brian Acton renders #DeleteFacebook hashtag (remove Facebook). The hashtag then discussed and retweet by more than 1,800 Twitter users.

Brian Acton was one of the founders of the WhatsApp works with Jan Koum developed this application.

Brian worked for about four years after WhatsApp acquired by Facebo4ok.

He later left and founded Facebook instant messaging application through the Signal Foundation about six months ago.

As Cnet reported, Wednesday (21/3/2018), a man who has long been known for dabbling in the field of encryption and privacy of this data does not explain in detail the reason renders the tagar.

Despite the very obvious, tagar relates to the leaking scandal 50 million Facebook user data.

The public is indeed a central data security issue highlights Facebook users. Because this privacy has always been a security issue that is warm and hold digital versatile era heralded.

A few days ago it was revealed there were as many as 50 million Facebook users personal data stolen and kept by data analysis, Cambridge firm Analytica.

Not only that, there's also a Facebook user data in archives Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL).

Both are mutually affiliated companies.

Quoted from Bloomberg, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg says Cambridge Analytica got that data through a third-party application developers.

These third party companies harvesting data from 50 million users without permission. Of the 50 million Facebook user data that is all in the hands of a third party, 30 million of which are already completed to map a person.

If it is so, users ' privacy will no longer be privacy. Because of this scandal, the stock plummeted 6.77 percent reported to Facebook after the leakage of the information circulating.

The value of any company valuations down to 36 billion u.s. dollars (equivalent to Rp 495 trillion) in line with the concerns of investors over the data leak case against Facebook.