Nightfam, if you have WhatsApp installed on you phone...
Then you need to watch this video til the end,
Because we are about to address the questions...
on everyone's minds.
Can we still trust WhatsApp...
or is it time to delete it from your phone?
Lately, a massive amount of WhatsApp
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 ads 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 WhatsApp,
and what are the groups 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 might be able to read your messages
and use whatever information is there... for its benefit.
That thirds 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...
Because 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 are 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...
accordinf 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 availble 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.