You don’t use Whatsapp, because you want to protect your personal data? This helps less than you think.
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- Now that Whatsapp belongs to Facebook, do without, some users, for privacy reasons, the use of the Messengers.
- Nevertheless, Facebook can be accessed even if your account got deleted and Whatsapp uninstalled, to many of your data.
- Reason your contacts, the use of the service to you and your data in the digital phonebook have stored.
- More articles on Business Insider can be found here.
Just a few days ago has Whatsapp in a blog entry known to have the limit of two billion users exceeded Business Insider reported. Thus, the short message service continues to expand its leadership on the competitors.
Nevertheless, many users opt to, the to Facebook belonging to use the service, because you want to protect your personal data.
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However, if your Facebook-delete account and Whatsapp from your Smartphone banished, you can access the Messenger will continue to be on many of your data.
Whatsapp: the data gathering continues even without an account
In order to get access to your data Whatsapp hidden around the back door needed, but rather relies only on the digital phone books your contacts.
Has saved your best friend, for example, your birthday, your place of residence, your E-Mail 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 Whatsapp gives you access to the phonebook, it reads the Messenger of all this data, too.
So if you want to really go that Whatsapp and Facebook know as little as possible about you, you must point out to all of your contacts to delete your data that go beyond the basics and beyond of their phones.
This article appeared in Business Insider in March 2020. He has now been re-examined and updated.
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