Jean-com co-founder of Watts August, the extensive popular encrypted messaging service that Facebook owns about stepping down and leaving the company, stated in a publication on Facebook on Monday, he wants to spend more time collecting air-cooled cars and working to develop his own car and fast Luggage by playing a frisbee game.
Marc Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook commented on the COM publication and said: "I am grateful for all that you have taught me, including encryption and its ability to capture power from centralized systems and put them into the hands of people, these values will always be in the heart of Watts August ."
Although a COM announcement about the reasons for leaving the company, it was said that it resisted Facebook managers because of the direction of Watts August and the attempts of his parent company to use personal data and weaken encryption.
According to the Washington Post, which reported problems between COM and the Facebook tool, the advertising and revenue generated by the application contributed also free to ignite this conflict, in the past the management of Watts strongly opposed August advertisements, saying in 2012 they don't want to be just another center for exchanging Announcements, where engineers spend their day digging for data.
Facebook's acquisition of the Whatsapp lication August for $19 billion (£ 13.8 billion) in 2014 is noteworthy.