independent : WhatsApp data sharing with Facebook: The official blog post that shows why people are so angry at messaging app

WhatsApp data sharing with Facebook: The official blog post that shows why people are so angry at messaging app

It was a quotation that WhatsApp's creators probably regret.Sat at the top of a blog post from 2012, and taken from Fight Club, it read: "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need".

This is how you stop WhatsApp from sharing your data with Facebook

WhatsApp hasn't updated its Terms of Service in four years, but the latest changes are making users of the app a little uneasy.Your info is now being shared with Facebook for a number of reasons, including showing you more relevant ads.

WhatsApp will use your data to target ads at you ─ but everything else on your phone is doing so too

The world's most widely used app-based instant-messaging service has made a change that is about to affect its one billion users.WhatsApp, which was bought over by social media giant Facebook for $21.8 billion in 2014, is now going to share user information, including phone numbers, contact lists, and status messages with the social networking giant.

WhatsApp to share user data with Facebook for ad targeting — here's how to opt out

Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has announced a big change to its privacy policy which, once a user accepts its new T&Cs, will see it start to share some user data with its parent company — including for ad-targeting purposes on the latter service."[B]y coordinating more with Facebook, we'll be able to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp," WhatsApp writes in a blog on the change today.