The move, the spokeswoman said, is part of a previously disclosed move to allow businesses to store and manage WhatsApp chats using Facebook's infrastructure. She agreed to email additional information on the condition it be kept on background, meaning none of the details can be quoted verbatim. WhatsApp, according to the App Store, reserves the right to collect:Ī WhatsApp spokeswoman declined to speak on the record about the changes and precisely how or if it’s possible for users to opt out of them. The move comes a month after Apple started requiring iOS app makers, including WhatsApp, to detail the information they collect from users.
In some cases, such as when someone uses WhatsApp to interact with third-party businesses, Facebook may also share information with those outside entities. “We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings.” “As part of the Facebook family of companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, this family of companies,” the new privacy policy states. Under the new terms, Facebook reserves the right to share collected data with its family of companies. Diagnostic data collected from app logs.Status message including when a user was last online.Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books.
Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: Come next month, users will no longer have that choice. Now, an updated privacy policy is changing that. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. The move was seen as a victory for privacy advocates because it used the Signal Protocol, an open source encryption scheme whose source code has been reviewed and audited by scores of independent security experts. Further Reading Whatsapp brings strong end-to-end crypto to the massesShortly after Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, its developers built state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption into the messaging app.