crcconnection : Regulators 'Look Into' Facebook Links To WhatsApp

Regulators 'Look Into' Facebook Links To WhatsApp

WhatsApp is to change its privacy policy so that businesses can message users in what looks to be a way for the company to open a potential revenue stream.Consumer privacy advocates in the US on Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the change represents an about-face on WhatsApp's previous promise to consumers that "nothing would change" when the social network acquired the messaging startup in 2014.It also says Facebook won't post phone numbers online or give them out to anyone.

Twitter takes aim at WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger as it overhauls direct messages

Twitter users have flocked to the site to complain about new featuresTwitter appears to have taken a page from WhatsApp in its overhaul of its direct message system.The struggling social network has added read receipts, typing indicators and web link previews, which the firm hopes will position them as a full-fledged messaging service.Although many of Twitter's users are unhappy with the changes, it is possible to disable receipts from the security page.

What's up, Zuck? FTC to probe Facebook for WhatsApp phone number mega-slurp • The Register

Is Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg about to get the microscope treatment from the FTC?Facebook is facing an FTC probe after snatching millions of people's phone numbers from its WhatsApp subsidiary.Privacy rights warriors at EPIC have asked the US watchdog to investigate the personal data grab – and the commission says it will look into the matter.

WhatsApp and Facebook data sharing: How to opt out of the invasive new terms

Facebook is going to start hoovering up your WhatsApp data and using it for ads.Unless you tell it not to.WhatsApp and Facebook data sharing: How to opt out of the invasive new termsWhatsApp's privacy changes have attracted the interest of the Information CommissionerFacebook is going to start hoovering up your WhatsApp data and using it for ads.

Facebook Plan for WhatsApp Will Be "Carefully Reviewed" by FTC

When Facebook swallowed WhatsApp in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised no one would mess with the popular messaging service's strict privacy protections.But that was then.Last month, the two companies had a change of heart as Facebook fb said it would slurp up user data, including phone numbers, that has till now been walled off in WhatsApp.