Facebook's WhatsApp has begun alerting its 2 billion users to an update of its privacy policy – and if they want to keep using the popular messaging app, they have to accept it. For long-time users, the option to share data with Facebook was made available in 2016, but it was just that: optional and temporary. Facebook had told EU regulators during the review it technically wasn't possible to combine WhatsApp data with its other services. Who benefits from the privacy policy changes? Signal, which relies on donations rather than advertisers for money, said it's seen a surge in downloads following WhatsApp's privacy policy update.

Source: Stuff January 13, 2021 18:54 UTC