‘If You Build for India, You Build for the World’: Signal Co Founder Brian Acton on WhatsApp and Future of Private Messaging ‘If You Build for India, You Build for the World’: Signal Co-Founder Brian Acton on WhatsApp and Future of Private Messaging ‘If you start from a position of no information, you’re automatically protecting people’s privacy.’ By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 13 January 2021 11:18 IST Photo Credit: Signal co-founder Brian Acton, who also co-founded WhatsApp, on the difference in privacy in the two apps Highlights He was also the co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 He quit Facebook reportedly over a dispute on WhatsApp's monetisation