“Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, has forced an ultimatum upon WhatsApp’s users: share your personal data and metadata from the end-to-end encrypted messenger with Facebook, or lose access to your WhatsApp account.”
…“users in Europe (and the post-Brexit UK) will likely not be subject to these same data-sharing agreements (although users in the UK and Europe will need to accept new terms). The the ultimate impact of these new terms are still being examined”…
WhatsApp will add the following data to your Facebook profile:
- Your WhatsApp phone number
- Your contacts’ phone numbers stored in your address book
- Your profile name
- Your profile picture
- Your status message
- A timestamp from when you were last online
- Diagnostic data collected from app logs