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WhatsApp: Let us share your data with Facebook or else:
In a surprise move, WhatsApp recently gave many of its users a difficult choice: they could either accept a revised privacy policy that explicit[sic] allowed the service to share information with parent company Facebook by February 8th, or decline and risk not being able to use the service at all.
[...] Upon further inspection, the updated policy makes clear that data collected by WhatsApp — including user phone numbers, "transaction data, service-related information, information on how you interact with others (including businesses) when using our Services , mobile device information, your IP address" and more are subject to be shared with other properties owned and controlled by Facebook.
"As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information (see here) with, the other Facebook Companies," the updated privacy policy reads. "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, including the Facebook Company Products."
[...] The shift appears to be a dramatic about-face for WhatsApp, a company that contends "respect for your privacy" is coded into its DNA and made end-to-end encryption standard across all chats as of 2016.
Additionally, Signal sees surge in new signups after boost from Elon Musk and WhatsApp controversy:
Encrypted messaging app Signal says it's seeing a swell of new users signing up for the platform, so much so that the company is seeing delays in phone number verifications of new accounts across multiple cell providers.
As for what or who is responsible for so many new users interested in trying the platform, which is operated by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, there are two likely culprits: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Signal competitor WhatsApp.
[...] WhatsApp has outlined a new privacy policy going into effect next month that no longer includes language indicating it will allow users to opt out of data sharing with parent company Facebook. Instead, the new policy expressly outlines how WhatsApp will share data (stuff like your phone number, profile name, and address book info) with Facebook.
Two anonymous submitters also pointed us to this story.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:03PM (4 children)
yeah, maybe a forum that downvoted you to hell so you can't even post is indeed the incorrect forum for you. on this forum, things like, oh, i dunno, data privacy is indeed the correct topic of discussion. i see you've taken a few days off your pills, got some sleep, and have now abandoned your friend, the fat slashdot spammer from years ago. after the nap, you're now fixated on runaway.
the autism. you cannot ever escape it. there is no cure. it will get worse every year as you age. today is the best day you'll have, because tomorrow and each following day, you'll be more and more trapped inside our brain till you're too afraid to go outside and get groceries. the end is sad, the road there is pain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:16PM (3 children)
Do you feel better now, or still have some dog kicking and wife beating to do?
(Score: 0, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:35PM (2 children)
i don't kick my dog - i fuck my dog, which is imaginary and has 5 pink nipples. my wife likes the daily beatings, it gets her hot - i think of the dog when we do it.
you don't have a wife because no woman will even talk to you. your dog is the closes you have to a friend and companionship - which is why you have a dog. your dog watches you jack off into a sock and licks it clean while you sleep, then licks itself. you've often thought what it would be like to rub your nads on its soft belly, but you push that thought out. eventually as you get used to the idea, that warm inviting skin will bring you closer to rover. no one will know - but we all already do.
there is no treatment. there is no cure. just slowly getting more and more trapped within the confines of your conscience, till you're afraid to open the door to your house. just like i'm pointing and laughing at you now, when your degenerating disability plays out to its inevitable cold dark moist end, someone just like me will be there to laugh at the weird freak. there is no way out - you're watching the train slowly come towards the missing part of track, but you're too much of a coward to jump off.
meanwhile, why don't you write us another song. sing and dance for our entertainment, soiled soylent jester.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @12:50AM (1 child)
Such strange fantasies you have. If we had socialized medicine in the US, you could afford the help you so clearly need. It's not your fault you're like this, but all of society that's to blame.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Sunday January 10 2021, @05:08AM
That was a pretty boring read - I'm here for laughter and entertainment. Why don't you try popping some more adderall and putting it into a nice two page song for us again? You can do it - we believe in you autism-boy!