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WhatsApp to share users’ personal information with Facebook

Janet John by Janet John
January 8, 2021
in Spotlight, Tech News
WhatsApp to share users' personal information with Facebook

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WhatsApp will now share its users’ personal information, including phone numbers, IP addresses, contacts, and more with Facebook from February 8, 2021.

Users who want to keep using WhatsApp must agree to these new terms, as there will be no option to opt-out. The only way to object is to leave the service.

READ: How to protect your bank accounts from hackers and fraudsters

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  • “As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from and shares information with the other Facebook Companies,” as stated in its privacy policy, this week
  • “We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings, including the Facebook Company Products.”

READ: How hackers break into your WhatsApp account, and how to avoid them

Users will be presented with the following choice in the app: accept these terms by February 8 or be blocked from using the end-to-end encrypted chat app.

  • That means users who wish to keep using WhatsApp must be prepared to give up personal info such as their names, profile pictures, status updates, phone numbers, contacts list, and IP addresses, as well as data about their mobile devices, such as model numbers, operating system versions, and network carrier.
  • If users engage with businesses via the app, details such as shipping addresses and the amount of money spent on orders may be passed to Facebook too as explained by the register.

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Alternative channels

For people who are concerned about their privacy and would not like to accept, there are other messaging apps alternative that you can use other than Facebook and Whatsapp Messenger: Allo, iMessage, Riot, Signal, Skype, Telegram, Threema, Viber, Wickr, Wire. Signal and Telegram are top on that list.


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Janet John is a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Uyo. She specializes in technical writing where she creates easy to read documentation, articles to clearly and efficiently explain highly complex processes. When she is not writing, she works as a freelance front-end developer

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Comments 4

  1. UB says:
    January 8, 2021 at 1:56 pm

    Mark is really taking over whole internet fgs

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  2. George says:
    January 8, 2021 at 2:08 pm

    Beautiful article. Its interesting how some people react to this sort of news. As if most of our data isnt available to big tech already.

    Reply
  3. Hayley says:
    January 8, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    I’m surely porting to Telegram and Signal.

    Reply
  4. Anonymous says:
    January 8, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    Use different numbers on WhatsApp and facebook ?? WhatsApp ads coming soon be that

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