{"id":35899,"date":"2021-01-08T22:53:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35899"},"modified":"2021-01-08T22:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:23:42","slug":"whatsapps-new-privacy-policy-will-share-all-your-data-with-facebook-and-its-subsidiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35899","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp&#8217;s new privacy policy, will share all your data with Facebook and its Subsidiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WhatsApp, the messaging platform owned by Facebook, has updated its Privacy Policy. All users received a notice, saying that the service will now be sharing user data with other Facebook companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes in stark contrast with what the company initially promised back in 2014 during the acquisition by Facebook when WhatsApp assured its goal is to know \u201cas little as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While users were able to opt out until now, starting February 8, they will have only one solution, if they don\u2019t want their data to be owned by the parent company &#8211; uninstall the app and stop using the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn-gsmarena-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/ii\/w680\/s\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/21\/01\/whatsapp-sell-data-facebook\/-640\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Screenshot by XDA Developers<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the info WhatsApp is collecting and will be sharing includes location data, IP addresses, phone model, OS, battery level, signal strength, browser, mobile network, ISP, language, time zone, and even IMEI. There\u2019s also the information about how you are messaging, calling, what groups you are attending, the Status, the profile photo, last time the you were online, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">WhatsApp even added a separate section called \u201cTransactions and Payments data\u201d specifying the platform will process additional information even for payments, made through the app. The company claims this is for analytics purposes, although it would provide its unique identifiers to other Facebook Companies.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn-gsmarena-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/i\/s\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/18\/08\/whatsapp-google-drive\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Privacy Policy is rolling out globally, however, users located in the European Union received only one bullet point in their notification. Thanks to tighter privacy legislation better known as GDPR, the WhatsApp users in 27 European countries will not have their data shared with third parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SOURCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/legal\/updates\/privacy-policy?eea=0#privacy-policy-updates-how-we-work-with-other-facebook-companies\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrG0O1aLd4lphmZCezvVO9LTy8Uu6gex6ccw&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp, the messaging platform owned by Facebook, has updated its Privacy Policy. All users received a notice, saying that the service will now be sharing user data with other Facebook companies. This comes in stark contrast with what the company initially promised back in 2014 during the acquisition by Facebook when WhatsApp assured its goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}