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WhatsApp 'betrays' users by sharing data with Facebook, here's how to opt out

WhatsApp 'betrays' users by sharing data with Facebook, here's how to opt out"WhatsApp users should be shocked and upset."Facebook's move to harvest the data of WhatsApp users has angered some of its billion users.The social media giant owns WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging service, but has left it to mostly operate independently since purchasing the company for NZ$30 billion two years ago.

WhatsApp shares data with Facebook, planning ways to connect to businesses

2nix/123rf.comWhen Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion back in 2014, the encrypted messaging app's CEO Jan Koum said, "Here's what will change for you, our users: nothing." That statement is no longer valid with WhatsApp most recent announcement to share some user data with its parent company.With more than a billion users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world.Earlier this year, the company enabled end-to-end encryption for every user — which certainly seems to have caused a lot of problems in Brazil.

How to keep Facebook from mining your WhatsApp data

In 2014, when Facebook bought messaging platform WhatsApp for $21.8 billion, many people were worried about the privacy implications.But the companies promised that nothing would change and that WhatsApp would "remain autonomous and operate independently." Well, this week, things changed.WhatsApp will now start sharing data from its one billion users with its equally behemoth parent company.