Security News > 2021 > January > Facebook’s Mandatory Data-Sharing Rules for WhatsApp Spark Ire

This information disclosed to the Facebook Companies already adds up to a fair bit of data, includes users' account registration information, such as phone number; transaction data; service-related information; data on how users interact with others, including businesses; mobile device information,; IP address; as well as other info identified as information users have given the service consent to collect, according to WhatsApp.

The expansion in data sharing between the two platforms will now ask users to provide payment account and transaction information to WhatsApp, according to one report.

The move to give users no choice in the matter of whether they support an expansion of data sharing between the two platforms is ostensibly a way for Facebook to provide targeted advertising so the parent company can further monetize its messaging asset, according to reports.

The increasingly tight relationship between Facebook and WhatsApp already has seen a migration of users to other messaging services, including Telegram and Signal.

"The data of individual users and people in their contacts has been shared with n number of 3rd parties and Facebook and its services." FSF is a nonprofit organization for the creation and distribution of free software programs and applications.

Facebook is no stranger to accusations of violating users privacy, problems that have cost the company billions in fines and, perhaps more importantly, fueled mistrust among users.

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