WhatsApp is selling user data to Facebook and Twitter doesn’t like that one bit

Many have taken extreme measures to leave the application while others don't know what just happened.

Updated 08 Jan, 2021

Earlier this week, user-by-user WhatsApp started rolling out in-app notifications revealing an update in its Terms of Services and Privacy Policy.

Users were informed that the application was going to be handling their data in a distinctive manner, revealing a new partnership with Facebook in offering integrations across the Facebook Company Product.

However surprisingly, this wasn't a choice.

People who had been religiously using the application for years, had to agree to the new terms and policy by 8 February 2021 in order to continue using the application.

Naturally, this did not sit well with the public who took to Twitter to reveal their anger (and confusion) in most

In a nutshell

Elon Musk has some advice

Some have taken to extreme measures

While others had no idea

We're in this together

...Or not

All business

We just gonna be here yelling our delivery orders

Sounds like most of us, right about now

Comments

kums Jan 08, 2021 11:51pm

whatsapp and Instagram are owned by Facebook.

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Laila Jan 09, 2021 03:37am

This is not news. Been going on for ages. Just face it. We live in the digital age and big brother is cashing in. We have surrendered out liberties and rights to privacy in retur for quick satisfaction of being on the internet.

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LgbtqX Jan 09, 2021 08:05am

Time to boycott social medias.

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Laila Jan 11, 2021 04:37am

@kums indeed. And if I recall correctly then Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was involved in a scandal where he as selling off user informations from Facebook and WhatsApp to Google? This is big brother. Make no mistake about it. Every key stroke on the internet is logged. Edward Snowdon is and was right.

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