{"id":71540,"date":"2016-08-26T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=71540"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:18:09","slug":"whatsapp-does-about-face-on-privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/whatsapp-does-about-face-on-privacy-policy","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Does About-Face on Privacy Policy as Company Plans to Share User Information with Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp promised users that, when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014, their digital privacy would not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication,&#8221; cofounder Jam Koum said back then. &#8220;Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward two years and the tune of cofounder Koum and co. has changed. WhatsApp announced this week it is changing its policy to begin boosting revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it plans to allow businesses to contact users through its platform\u2014a tactic that may also be employed by Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/07\/20\/one-billion-facebook-messenger<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to explore ways for you to communicate with businesses that matter to you, too, while still giving you an experience without third-party banner ads and spam,\u201d WhatsApp said in a blog post announcing the changes to its privacy policy.<\/p>\n<p>The company will also begin disclosing member phone numbers and user analytics to Facebook, which WhatsApp says will be used to reduce spam text messages.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the success of WhatsApp came from its hard-nosed privacy policies, which appealed to users who felt like they had to divulge excess information to use apps like Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp promised users that, when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014, their digital privacy would not be affected. &#8221; I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication,&#8221; cofounder Jam Koum said back then. &#8220;Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA.&#8221; Fast-forward two years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":71541,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-71540","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/71540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/71540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/71541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71540"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=71540"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=71540"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=71540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}