FACEBOOK IN FILTHY SHEETS: A CO-FOUNDER OF WHATSAPP ADVISES TO DELETE FACEBOOK

Facebook is going through a very bad time and its leader too. The Cambridge Analytica case is causing considerable damage to the network, accused of not being too ethical when it comes to selling personal data. And the call for a boycott of a co-founder of WhatsApp is not likely to fix things.

---Facebook: worrying excesses about the use of personal data---

Facebook is not very respectful of privacy, it's a fact! But this disturbing laxity was revealed in the open with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Thus was updated the diversion of a colossal number of personal data, since it concerns no less than 50 million people (it was not a piracy, so that doubt is not allowed). And it gets even tougher as Cambridge Analytica proves to be an analyst firm that has promoted Donald Trump's election campaign. We can even talk about a crisis of unprecedented scale, since calls for boycott are becoming increasingly virulent, especially with the #Delete Facebook campaign. And there is heavy among those who call to boycott, since there is Brian Acton, a co-founder of WhatsApp who left the application of instant messenger when it was bought by Facebook in 2014.

---Co-founder of WhatsApp joins calls for boycott---

Brian Acton was not found in the policy led by Facebook, activist for the defense of privacy, but also rising against the merchant drifts of the net. It promotes open source services. Above all, he has invested millions of dollars in an encrypted messaging application called Signal. With WhatsApp, his desire was already to secure data so that no state agency could access it. But with its purchase by Facebook, the application had begun to be suspected of transfer of personal data to the parent company, without legal basis. Mark Zuckerberg is preparing a crisis communication with his operational director, Sheryl Sandberg. They say they work "tirelessly, 24 hours a day, to gather all the information they need to understand the scope of the problem and propose the most appropriate response." Difficult to justify, the unjustifiable, it is probably why the official communication of Facebook takes so long to explain clearly on the background of this story, relatively serious for personal data, but also for democracy, including there is little talk in the middle of this privacy scandal.