Companies wary of WhatsApp privacy issues
It's not just privacy advocates who are freaking out over Facebook's decision to extract user data from its popular WhatsApp messaging service.The move is also giving corporate America pause when it comes to setting up shop on the world's biggest messaging platform.Companies are worried about how it might affect their efforts to use the free messaging platform to communicate with customers while also protecting confidential corporate and customer data.
Media Matters: WhatsApp data privacy promises meant nothing
Messaging app's Facebook integration means users' info will be used to hone targeted advertisingThere is no such thing as a free lunch, as the saying goes, and it appears we're about to pay the price for eating out on WhatsApp's dime.*Angry face*The ad-free messaging service, which has more than one billion monthly active users, announced at the beginning of this year that it was to go completely free and drop its annual €0.99 subscription fee.Wasn't that nice of them?
WhatsApp privacy policy change challenged in Delhi High Court
As per the new privacy policy announced last week, there will be data-sharing with parent company Facebook.As per the new privacy policy announced last week, there will be data-sharing with parent company Facebook.The recent change in privacy policy by web-based messaging service WhatsApp, whereby it declared to share the data collected from its users with Facebook, has been challenged before the Delhi high court.
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