WhatsApp is forcing users to share personal data with Facebook

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If users don't agree to let Facebook collect their WhatsApp data, they will lose access to the app, which sells itself as a privacy-focused service.
  • WhatsApp is changing its terms of service to force users to share personal data, including phone numbers and location, with its parent company Facebook.
  • Some critics — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk — have suggested users move to encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram.
  • A WhatsApp spokesperson told Ars Technica the change was to allow businesses to store WhatsApp chats using Facebook infrastructure.
  • The messaging app sells itself as a privacy-focused service.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging app that sells itself as a privacy-focused service, will start forcing users to share personal data with Facebook, its parent company.

In an announcement sent out to users on Wednesday, WhatsApp said users will have to agree to let Facebook and its subsidiaries collect WhatsApp data, including user phone numbers, contacts' phone numbers, location, and more.

If users do not agree by February 8, they will lose access.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/w...share-personal-data-facebook-elon-musk-2021-1


Whatsapp alternative > https://www.signal.org
 
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Almost certain Twitter own Signal. Your going to stop using Whatsapp so FB dont have your data but give it to Twitter instead?
 
virtualbyron said:
The messaging app sells itself as a privacy-focused service.
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Well that all went out the window!

I guess it is their right to do so. But hurts their credibility as a privacy-focused service. Now our data gets stored on another database.

Telegram is great.
 
xReminisce said:
let's be honest, they been stealing our data since fb took over

Signal tho, it's not so safe from what i remember

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/10/05/signal-messenger-eavesdropping-exploit-confirmedwhat-you-need-to-know/?sh=490925d87dc1
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don't exchange anything important on Facebook
 
Signal.

Encrypts metadata as well as messages and calls, which neither whatsapp or telegram does.

Now Musk said to switch there has been a huge boost in the number of Signal signups. That's how you know people respect and trust him. Also the guy's got the resources and motivation to have an in-depth technical understanding of Whatsapp vs. Signal which most of us don't, as well as not having a horse in the race (apart from hating Zuckerborg) which always gives me more confidence when people give advice.

 
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