Recently, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) reveal its plan of signing a deal of worth $19 billion with WhatsApp which is a famous messaging app. The social networking site received two types of responses on this deal. One group does not understand why that huge amount should be invested in such an agreement while other group is concerned about privacy issues.

But today, the CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, answered all opponents by saying that by making a deal with Facebook does not create any harm as they will not alter their pattern of working. On the other hand, this partnership will permit them to be functional freely and unconventionally. Along with their standards, no change in basic ideas and viewpoints of the company will be observed. WhatsApp will be heading the personal messaging department by maintaining all such values.

According to Koum, e-mail addresses, legal names, birthdays, workplaces, or home addresses are not asked by WhatsApp. The platform does not even know about likes or dislikes of its users, what user surf on internet and did not gather GPS location of users. And the company has no policy of changing this strategy in future as well.

To put a ban on acquisition by Facebook of WhatsApp messaging app, recently, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Center for Digital Democracy has asked the FTC. According to the complaint, the company has complete private information of its users that can be used in advertising methods. The social networking site already use its user data for marketing reasons and it is feared that WhatsApp will also adopt the same metod to generate its income.

According to a Facebook spokesperson, Facebook respect its promises to protection and privacy of its users and as an independent company, Whatsapp will function.

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