{"id":988250,"date":"2026-01-28T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988250"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:38:47","slug":"zohos-sridhar-vembu-lashes-out-at-whatsapp-encryption-policy-with-ad-models-privacy-can-never-be-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/zohos-sridhar-vembu-lashes-out-at-whatsapp-encryption-policy-with-ad-models-privacy-can-never-be-a-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu lashes out at WhatsApp encryption policy, \u2018with ad models, privacy can never be a priority\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing lawsuit against Meta for breaching WhatsApp\u2019s 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 \u201creal and serious\u201d conflict of interest in companies like Meta, where revenue from user data clashes with genuine privacy protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing lawsuit against Meta for breaching WhatsApp\u2019s 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 \u201creal and serious\u201d conflict of interest in companies like Meta, where revenue from user data clashes with genuine privacy protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988250","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}