Vonvon CEO defends privacy practices of its ‘Most Used Words on Facebook’ app against critics

As the “What are your most used words on Facebook?” app became a viral phenomenon, people began asking about the company that created the wordcloud and its privacy practices.

Earlier this week, we published an interview with Jonghwa Kim, the CEO and founder of Vonvon, the South Korean company that created the ‘most used words’ app and other quizzes. After that story appeared, Kim followed up with a more extended rebuttal of some of the criticism of his company’s privacy practices, particularly the analysis posted by the Comparitech blog, which called the app a “privacy nightmare” after analyzing all the data it required.