WhatsApp just recently updated their privacy policies, and seems to be one of the billions of users who have decided to stop to read them. In the update of these privacy policies, WhatsApp politely Announces us that it will begin to share the information of its users with Facebook. The typical promise they made, but that was to come just when Facebook was made with WhatsApp and became completely free for everyone. Is the first of them steps that WhatsApp da to integrate is with Facebook, an activity that already carry to out other applications as Instagram, fully integrated with Facebook.
WhatsApp explains on his blog that it will share with Facebook data as our phone numbers with the intention of helping the company manage that database. We do not know to what point will be real that intention, but it is clear that something was looking for Facebook in the acquisition of WhatsApp and we do not believe that it was providing a service free of charge, we already know that today, when a product is free and we use it, it is because we are the product. These changes, according to WhatsApp, have been to solve SPAM problems in the application. However, according to the company, Facebook not has access to our communications, something that understand, since has of an encrypted end to end, by what intercept in the server these messages is unworkable.
Facebook seems not to serve you the immense database which already owns after forcing thousands of people to install Facebook Messenger if they wanted to chat from their mobile devices. As well, Facebook has the two most powerful of the time instant messaging applications, and not be surprised us that late or early end of unifying the services in one way or another, because little or almost no sense has to have two applications as well in the market.
