You don’t use Whatsapp because you want to protect your personal data? That helps less than you think.
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- Since Whatsapp has belonged to Facebook at the latest, some users have decided not to use the messenger for data protection reasons.
- Nevertheless, even if you have deleted your account and uninstalled Whatsapp, Facebook can access a lot of your data.
- The reason for this is your contacts, who continue to use the service and have saved your data in the digital phone book.
- You can find more articles on Business Insider here.
Just a few days ago Whatsapp announced in a blog entry that they have exceeded the limit of two billion users – Business Insider reported. The short message service is thus extending its leadership to the competition.
Nevertheless, many users choose not to Facebook to use the associated service because they want to protect their personal data.
Read also: Why you shouldn’t use the Whatsapp camera
But even if you delete your Facebook account and ban Whatsapp from your smartphone, Messenger can still access a lot of your data.
Whatsapp: Data collection continues even without an account
To get access to your data, Whatsapp does not need hidden back doors, but only accesses the digital phone books of your contacts.
Has your best friend saved your birthday, your place of residence, your email address, your telephone number (s), the names and data of your family, your website, your Twitter name and various other data under your name and grants access to Whatsapp to the phone book, the messenger also reads all this data.
So if you really want to make sure that Whatsapp and Facebook know as little about you as possible, you have to tell all of your contacts to delete your data from their phones that goes beyond what is absolutely necessary.
This article was published by Business Insider in March 2020. It has now been checked and updated again.
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