WhatsApp shares contact details with Facebook
WhatsApp is the dearest of millions of people around the world seeking for instant messaging, mostly due to its convenient platform, easy-to-use tricks, faster processing, and sheltered privacy policy.However, few months before, the Social Media King Facebook acquired WhatsApp, and now WhatsApp has brought up a major transformation into its privacy policy, according to which WhatsApp will now share the contact details of users to its parental company Facebook.Details about the modifications:WhatsApp, during a surprise announcement, declared a new amendment to its privacy policy for the enhancement of the Facebook promotions and specification encounters and this amendment in initial stage would provide the contact details of the WhatsApp users to Facebook.
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When it comes to arranging a big night out, sending texts abroad, or messaging image files, WhatsApp is a bit of a saviour.We use it pretty much every day.However, the app recently announced in a blog post that it's going to be sharing some of your personal info - such as your phone number - with Facebook.
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A few days ago WhatsApp announced a new privacy policy, saying that the new policy was needed because in future it would be sharing some user details with its parent company Facebook.Of these some details, a few were spelled out by Facebook.It said that your phone number as well as some general user-related data will be shared with Facebook so that Facebook can show you better ads in Timeline.
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Back in 2014, Facebook acquired messaging service WhatsApp in a headline-grabbing $16 billion deal.WhatsApp, though, had been built around respecting users' privacy, while Facebook is, well, the exact opposite of that.Then, and for two years after, the head of WhatsApp promised that the company wasn't going to "sell users out," writing at the time that, "Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA" and that he wouldn't have sold the company to Facebook if Zuck's empire said it wanted to change that.
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WhatsApp shares data with Facebook ahead of monetisationmedium text large textMore than two years after its acquisition by Facebook, WhatsApp has seemingly succumbed to the inevitable pressure from its parent company to surrender some of its autonomy, agreeing to share its users' account information with Facebook, including their phone numbers.The move comes as WhatsApp prepares to roll out an application-to-person communications offering, which will enable businesses to send chat messages to WhatsApp users.WhatsApp's "no-ads" ethos takes on shades of greyWhen Facebook acquired WhatsApp in February 2014, WhatsApp's CEO Jan Koum was adamant that WhatsApp would operate as an autonomous subsidiary of Facebook, and that it would retain its no-advertising business model.
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