WhatsApp's new privacy policy "very confusing", says Signal co-founder Brian Acton California-based messaging app Signal's co-founder Brian Acton, who also co-founded WhatsApp, has said that he finds the latter's new privacy policy 'very confusing' and 'hard to follow' BusinessToday.In | January 14, 2021 | Updated 10:32 IST Brian Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum and sold it to Facebook for $19 billion in 2014 California-based messaging app Signal's co-founder Brian Acton, who also co-founded WhatsApp, has said that he finds the latter's new privacy policy "very confusing" and "hard to follow." Acton said the update renders the possibility of users' data being shared back to Facebook, which owns the platform, to increase the company's capability to target customers.