WhatsApp being one of the major messaging application owned by the social networking giant Facebook is used by billions of users across globe. Recently there is a news that WhatsApp is going to share personal information with Facebook.
When Facebook owned WhatsApp for about $20 billion CEO Mark stated that the two platforms will co-exist as an independent separate platforms. The beta release of WhatsApp is believed to be having a code that share data with Facebook.
The new feature dubbed as "Share my account info" if enabled will share the personal data with Facebook inorder to provide better user experience to users and it is also stated that it contains option such as sharing photo from WhatsApp and Vice versa for a photo album.
Many stated that it is just the first step towards the deep integration of Facebook with WhatsApp but it has to be officially released by the giant.
Also it contains an optional feature known as "Show security indicators" if enabled users messages will be encrypted with end to end encryption.
End to end encryption means the messages emerging from one user will be encrypted and then can only be decrypted at the other end who is the intended user. No third party entity can decrypt the message even WhatsApp similar to that of the encryption by Apple for iMessages.
Official update is to be released by WhatsApp and the optional features according to WhatsApp will provide better user privacy.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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