WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with Facebook beginning Feb. 8. The Facebook-owned messaging service already has sent ultimatum-like pop-up messages to users in some regions, including India, asking them to accept the new privacy regulations or risk losing their accounts. The expansion in data sharing between the two platforms will now ask users to provide payment account and transaction information to WhatsApp. The move comes at a time when Facebook is embroiled in twin antitrust suits filed by dozens of state and federal government that call for the tech giant to be broken up due to exactly this type of activity.
Source: https://threatpost.com/facebooks-mandatory-data-sharing-whatsapp-ire/162828/