Security News > 2021 > January > WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook or delete your account
Despite its focus on users' privacy, WhatsApp is now giving its users a harsh ultimatum, with only three options available: to accept sharing their data with Facebook, to stop using the app altogether, or to delete their accounts.
With the new changes to the policy, users will now be forced to accept sharing their data with Facebook to continue using their account or, as an alternative, delete their accounts as WhatsApp says.
Facebook companies that will gain access to WhatsApp users' data once the new policy changes take effect in February include Facebook, Facebook Payments, Onavo, Facebook Technologies, and CrowdTangle.
"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," WhatsApp explains.
Providing integrations to connect WhatsApp experiences with other Facebook Company Products.
While WhatsApp previously allowed users to download collected account information, the company was forced to provide additional information on how its apps' are handling user data starting with December 2020, after Apple started requiring it from all applications listed on its App Store.