How to opt out of sharing your WhatsApp info with Facebook
Yesterday WhatsApp announced a huge change to its privacy policy that will see it begin sharing information on its users — such as their mobile phone number and last seen status on the app — with its owner company Facebook, and any other companies Facebook owns.If you're not happy about that, you have two choices: You can either stop using WhatsApp entirely — if you want to be sure that none of your WhatsApp data ends up on Facebook's servers.Or you can exercise the partial opt out WhatsApp is offering users for a short period of time.
How to opt out of WhatsApp sharing your phone number with Facebook – Naked Security
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WhatsApp updates terms of service, will begin sharing information with Facebook
For the first time since it was acquired by Facebook back in 2014 for close to $20 billion, Whatsapp has updated its terms of service.In a move that's sure to irritate some users, the company says it will begin to share a limited amount of user data with Facebook."By coordinating more with Facebook, we'll be able to do things like track basic metrics regarding how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp," says the company in a blog post announcing the new terms of service.
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