>Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s founder, who was born in Ukraine, has talked about his family members’ fears that the government was eavesdropping on their phone calls.

>Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s founder, who was born in Ukraine, has talked about his family members’ fears that the government was eavesdropping on their phone calls. And the Ukraine government is not the only government that might be suspected of having shenanigans, whether officially or done by rogue agents. Even our own FBI has been infiltrated by rogue agents, such the case of an illegal immigrant who managed to become an FBI agent and was trying to get information on their investigation of Hizbollah, as documented on their own web site: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/november/prouty_111307 https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/november/prouty_111307 Of course the majority of the people there are great people doing a good job. But extending trust to them does not protect the users' interest in privacy and more importantly safety.