Users of the WhatsApp app have been informed about the decision of Facebook, the parent company of WhatsApp, to establish data sharing between these two branches. Partitioning time is delayed, but this may cause some users to worry
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The latest update to the WhatsApp messaging service is the introduction of this data sharing from its parent company Facebook with effect from February 8, 2021. This outcry prompted Facebook to delay. Delayed but not canceled, it’s time to explain to users what it is. Restoring hope based on the promise made in 2014 will not be much.
WhatsApp has a solid reputation in terms of data security. Facebook, by retrieving this application, will never install the partition and must respect that the information of its users should not be shared with the parent company. A promise to hold for seven years.
Faced with growing concern, WhatsApp sought to reassure customers that its new policy “does not in any way affect the confidentiality of messages exchanged with your friends and family”.
In fact, if the content of the conversations is to be kept confidential. However, information such as users’ phone number, name and IP address will be shared. The best targeted advertising on these networks is data that allows us to better identify user profiles on all Facebook family sites and, above all, make free networking profitable.
It should also be noted that this process is not new, for example, Messenger existed before it was purchased by Facebook and became a private messaging service for Facebook users, thus causing such data sharing.
For a long time, we may also be surprised that the Facebook team, which integrates the power of its WhatsApp application, no longer chooses to close WhatsApp Messenger.
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