WhatsApp Ultimatum: Share data with Facebook
Muhammad Junaid Digital Marketer
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Muhammad Junaid Digital Marketer
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The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy.
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion-plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete their accounts.
The requirement is being delivered through an in-app alert directing users to agree to sweep changes in the WhatsApp terms of service. Those who don’t accept the revamped privacy policy by February 8 will no longer be able to use the app.
WhatsApp is now updated it's the privacy policy. In the next coming month, users will no longer have that choice. Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes:
- User phone numbers
- Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books
- Profile names
- Profile pictures and
- A status message including when a user was last online
- Diagnostic data collected from app logs