Whatsapp to Start Sharing Users’ Phone Numbers and other data to Facebook

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The world’s leading instant messaging app, Whatsapp, will soon begin to share more data with the social media giant Facebook. Whatspp gained its popularity due to its ease of use, privacy status, and simplicity as almost every phone that has access to the internet and or GPS can use the app.

So Whatsapp will now begin sharing information like user’s phone numbers, last time such persons used Whatsapp and the likes with Facebook.  They made this known stating that this will help offer better friend suggestions and more relevant ads on Facebook and help eradicate spam abuse.

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This is the first time Whatsapp is changing its privacy policy after it was bought over by the social media giants – Facebook.

To many people, like me, this is actually a letdown as it portrays a sense of betrayal. I don’t like sharing my phone numbers online.

But the good news here is that users have the way out. You can simply choose to opt out of the data sharing policy if you don’t like it by just simply following some steps stated out on the company’s website.

Do you think this a welcome development?

Let’s hear your view in the comment section below…

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