Messaging service WhatsApp said on Thursday it would be changing its privacy policy which will allow it to share user details with its parent company, social network Facebook. That was enough to spark off a war of words, Online.
When Facebook had bought the startup WhatsApp in 2014, Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, had declared that the deal would not affect the digital privacy of his mobile messaging service’s millions of users.
http://news.google.com Aug 25, 2016
The mobile messaging service, which Facebook bought in 2014, says it will disclose users’ phone numbers and analytics data.WhatsApp Will Start Sharing Data, Including …
Facebook is going to start taking user data from WhatsApp – The Independent
http://news.google.com Aug 25, 2016
The company has long been committed to ensuring that WhatsApp user data remains private – telling users when it was acquired by Facebook that “Respect for your privacy …
Messaging service WhatsApp to share phone numbers with Facebook – Duluth News Tribune
http://news.google.com Aug 25, 2016
The change in policy, WhatsApp’s first since the deal, will allow for more relevant advertisements and friend recommendations on Facebook, according …
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WhatsApp privacy under threat as France and Germany push EU to allow states to break encryption – The Independent
http://news.google.com Aug 23, 2016
WhatsApp privacy under threat as France and Germany push EU to allow states to break encryptionThe IndependentThe two countries plan to ask the European Commission to force technology companies to limit the encryption used to keep messaging …
Deleted WhatsApp chats can still be read, security researcher warns – Telegraph.co.uk
http://news.google.com Aug 1, 2016
It would be reasonable for WhatsApp users to expect message history to disappear from a phone when a conversation is deleted, especially given WhatsApp’s …
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