A day after Facebook claimed that Indian-origin Aran Khanna did not remove the code from a malicious app despite requests, Khanna said on Saturday he had complied with all the requests of the social media giant.
“I complied with Facebook’s requests, as they pertained to both my interactions with the media and the handling of the code, every step of the way,” Khanna told IANS in an email response, adding: “My intentions were never malicious; I simply sought to draw attention to a privacy issue that I knew many people were unaware of.”
“Despite being asked repeatedly to remove the code, the creator of this tool left it up. This is wrong and it’s inconsistent with how we think about serving our community,” Facebook said in a statement on Friday.
Concerned over privacy issues, Khanna, who’s based in Washington, said: “I’m hopeful this story will foster conversations about how Facebook and other companies handle privacy issues, specifically, whether they take steps to proactively protect our privacy, or if it takes pressure from the outside to affect change.”