A few days ago echoed one of the news that has surprised most users, in which WhatsApp, the most widely used instant messaging application worldwide, would begin to share sensitive data with Facebook. To make this possible, they have launched a new privacy policy for WhatsApp .
We all remember that Facebook bought the company WhatsApp for 16,000 million dollars and at the time of this purchase, it was announced that WhatsApp would always respect the privacy of its users, something that two years later, we can verify that it is totally false.
How the new privacy policy of WhatsApp affects us.
With the calmer waters, I am almost certain that many WhatsApp users have clicked the "Accept" button and continued with their usual use of the application without even stopping to read what this new privacy policy implies .
It is obvious that privacy for many users is secondary, but for many it is important, because nobody likes to be treated like cattle with which to carry out purchase and sale operations.
Surely in some situation has appeared in the suggestions of Facebook friends a person or company that you have added to WhatsApp recently. From Facebook, they say they do this to "improve our experience with products and advertising on Facebook . "
This new policy will not make us see ads on WhatsApp, but as our data is shared with Facebook, now also know who we talk with, you can also check the content of our messages to know if we are interested in buying a new smartphone or if we have left our girlfriend This is how crude is the situation in which this update of the WhatsApp privacy policy leaves us.
At the time of raising the user this new privacy policy, play with the text to try to "hide" your true intentions, for example we read: "Your chats and your phone number will not be shared on Facebook . " We see that they use "in" instead of "with" , a seemingly insignificant detail, but one that drastically compromises users' privacy.
Now that you know a little more about this new WhatsApp privacy policy , you can now decide whether to continue using it or not.