Saturday 27 August 2016

Privacy groups call foul on WhatsApp sharing data with Facebook

WhatsApp's new terms-of-service are causing quite a stir among privacy advocates. Yesterday, the company announced it would begin sharing user phone numbers, profile data, status message and online status with Facebook, its parent company -- a change that the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) claims violates a Federal Trade Commission consent order.

Source: EPIC, Motherboard, BBC


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