Many countries have their policy for data protection of the users from Android or iOS apps. Europe has the best data privacy policy which doesn’t allow any app or tech companies to collect their country people data.
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Recently WhatsApp the subsidiary of Facebook has made compulsory acceptance of their privacy policy which says that the data will be shared to the parent company Facebook.
For those unaware, the co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, left the company after Facebook acquired it. He then moved ahead to create the Signal Foundation with Moxie Marlinspike. The Signal messaging app is like what WhatsApp used to be earlier and offers better privacy. There is end-to-end encryption by default powered by the open-source Signal Protocol.
What are important Data collected by each app
Signal- Private Messenger
Data collected: None. Signal only needs your mobile number for registration but the report claims that the app doesn’t link your phone number to your identity.
iMessage
Data collected: Email address, Phone number, Search history, Device ID. to see on Apple’s support page.
Telegram
Data Collected: Name, Phone number, Contacts, User ID
Data collected: Device ID, User ID, Advertising Data, Purchase History, Coarse Location, Phone Number, Email Address, Contacts, Product Interaction, Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data, Payment Info, Customer Support, Product Interaction, Other User, Content.
Note: WhatsApp is also known to collect user metadata which hasn’t provided much clarity.
Facebook Messenger
For Facebook Messenger, the list is just too long and includes almost all types of personal user data an app can collect.
Data collected: Third-Party Advertising, Purchase History, Financial Info, Precise Location, Coarse Location, Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info, Contacts, Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content, Search History, Browsing History, User ID, Device ID, Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data, Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data, Other Data Types, Developer’s, Advertising or Marketing, Health, Fitness, Payment Info, Sensitive Info, Product Personalization, Credit Info, Other Financial Info, Emails or Text Messages.
From this, we can say all subsidiary of Facebook including WhatsApp is data thieves. Use alternative apps if you don’t wish to share your data. For example, Signal and Telegram can be used as an alternative for WhatsApp.
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