Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu lashes out at WhatsApp encryption policy, ‘with ad models, privacy can never be a priority’

Amid the ongoing lawsuit against Meta for breaching WhatsApp’s privacy claims, Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Zoho, has lashed out at the tech giant. Vembu commented on the nature of the business, stating that ad-dependent business models fundamentally undermine user privacy. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vembu highlighted the “real and serious” conflict of interest in companies like Meta, where revenue from user data clashes with genuine privacy protections.