Whatsapp Privacy Policy to share your Personal Information with Facebook.
Whatsapp Privacy Policy to share your Personal
Information with Facebook. While the company policy earlier was not to share chats
and other info with Facebook.
According to reports the UK's Information Commissioner
(ICO) is looking into WhatsApp decision to share more data with Facebook (remember
now Facebook bought Whatsapp). ICO main purpose is to ensure that companies
remain transparent with the public about how their personal data is being
shared and protecting consumers by making sure the law is being followed. Any organization
that breaks the Data Protection Act can be fined up to £500,000 by the ICO.
Revealed in Whatsapp blog they
said more data would let it provide suggestions in Facebook to whom the users
should connect with (Friend
suggestions) and will be used to help ad targeting on Facebook. This could
help them fight Spam better.
New features to introduce in WhatsApp are advertisements
within the app let’s see how it goes with the consumers whether they like this
or will want service that had remained ad-free before.The Company also provide instructions for the people
who did not want their data to be shared. Let’s see for how long they provide
this opt out before updating their terms and conditions again to openly share information
with Facebook. How to stop Facebook from getting your information via
WhatsApp.
- If you recently updated Whatsapp you will be shown the terms and conditions message instantly.
- Tap on Read then scroll down through the terms and conditions page. You need to uncheck this ‘Share my WhatsApp account information with Facebook to improve my Facebook ads and products experiences. Your Chats and Phone Number will not be shared with Facebook’.
- Within the app go to settings. Tap on Account then uncheck ‘Share my account info’.
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