Should you delete WhatsApp?

If you have WHATSAPP installed
on your phone...

Then you need to watch this video
til the end.

Because we are about the address
the questions...

on everyone's mind

Can we still trust WHATSAPP

or is it time to delete it from
your phone?

Lately, a massive amount of WHATSAPP users

Have been jumping ship...

to more secure messaging apps like
Signal and Telegram...

after WHATSAPP announced its updated
privacy policy

Many users pointed out

that this important line was removed

"Respect for your privacy is coded in
our DNA, since we started WHATSAPP, we've

aspired to build our services with a set
of strong privacy principles in mind."

But what does the new policy actually say?

Well in simple terms

if you want to continue using WHATSAPP

After February 8th...

you have to agree to sharing your
personal data

with Facebook and Instagram

so they can customize the adds on their
platforms.

Personal data includes

your phone number,

your profile picture,

your WHATSAPP status,
your IP address,

your about info,

your language and time zone,

how often you use the app,

and what are the group that you've joined.

But ladies and gentlemen,
those are just the basics.

If you are communicating with
a business via WHATSAPP

and that business chose to be hosted

by a third-party service?

That third party service might be able to
read your messages...

and use whatever information is there...
for its benefit.

That third party by the way

can also be Facebook

In that case, Facebook may use these chats

to personalize content for you

remember the last time you spoke about
something...

and then you saw an ad about it the
next day?

Here is the funny thing about the WHATSAPP
update though

becuase most of it is old news

as early as August 2016

WHATSAPP had already started...

sharing user information with Facebook.

Users then were given 30 days

to opt-out of that policy change.

If you were aware of it back then

and you said no...
then you're safe now.

If you didn't...

well... it's not the end of the world.

To be clear

All of your private messages, videos,
pictures, recordings...

according to Facebook remain safe.

Yes, my dear, Mark Zuckerberg won't be
able to read them.

But apart from that

should you delete WHATSAPP or not?

You just have to ask yourself these
two questions.

Number one...

How much do you trust Facebook?

And number two...

will you be able to sleep soundly
at night...

knowing all of the personal data I Just
listed earlier...

will be available to them?

But then again...

you have just watched this video
on Facebook

and probably earlier today,
Googled something too...

Which means that...

most of your personal data

is already out there...