WhatsApp will share your phone number with Facebook for ads
Found on CNet News on Thursday, 25 August 2016
The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including more targeted ads, being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being warned about a delayed flight. In order to do this, WhatsApp will share your phone number with Facebook's system.
While messages will stay locked up tight, the phone number will be linked to Facebook. And that's a lot of phone numbers: This year, WhatsApp said its users are making 100 million calls a day.
The thinking behind this is that you will receive better friend suggestions and also supposedly help Facebook show you more relevant ads.
That was pretty obvious when FB bought WhatApp a few years back. Empty promises were made about privacy; and once again this proves that you cannot trust social media companies because they will just lie to you about pretty much everything.