{"id":962555,"date":"2025-09-18T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962555"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:33:07","slug":"metas-culture-is-to-attack-whatsapps-ex-security-head-claims-he-was-punished-for-speaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/18\/metas-culture-is-to-attack-whatsapps-ex-security-head-claims-he-was-punished-for-speaking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Meta\u2019s culture is to attack\u2019: WhatsApp\u2019s ex-security head claims he was punished for speaking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former top security executive at WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Facebook-parent Meta. The lawsuit alleges that the internal performance review system of the company was weaponised to retaliate against him for exposing some major privacy vulnerabilities affecting millions of users. According to a report by Business Insider, Attaullah Baig, who worked as the head of security at WhatsApp, claims that Meta\u2019s obsession with its Performance Summary Cycle (PSC), a system the company uses to evaluate employee performance has created a culture where optics contain more value as compared to user safety. \u201cMeta\u2019s culture is to attack the messenger, not the message,\u201d Baig told Business Insider. \u201cThe reason this whole thing is big is because of user harm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former top security executive at WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Facebook-parent Meta. The lawsuit alleges that the internal performance review system of the company was weaponised to retaliate against him for exposing some major privacy vulnerabilities affecting millions of users. According to a report by Business Insider, Attaullah Baig, who worked as the head of security at WhatsApp, claims that Meta\u2019s obsession with its Performance Summary Cycle (PSC), a system the company uses to evaluate employee performance has created a culture where optics contain more value as compared to user safety. \u201cMeta\u2019s culture is to attack the messenger, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}