Meaning, if WhatsApp shares your phone number with Facebook, it won't fill in the phone number field on your profile and make it visible to anyone. And any information that is shared by WhatsApp will not be publicly visible to anyone using Facebook. Only you and the person you send messages to will ever be able to see that information. Thanks to end-to-end encryption, Facebook will not be able to see your messages, photos or other media you share. The updated WhatsApp FAQ page says that the phone number you used to sign up for WhatsApp with will be shared, as well as the last time you used the service. What information is being shared with Facebook? Part of this update includes WhatsApp sharing your account information with Facebook to, among other things, provide better targeted ads. With this tweak installed, contacts will not be able to see if you have read the messages or not as the two checkmarks will not turn blue at their end and will remain grey.For the first time in four years and since being acquired by Facebook, WhatsApp is updating its terms and conditions, as well as its privacy policy. WhatsApp’s FAQ said it all the IM app had enabled the read receipts feature, which could have been done much earlier as well, but you have to wonder what kept WhatsApp waiting till now, or even better, what caused it to enable this.įor jailbroken iOS users at least, there is hope in the form of ‘WhatsApp Read Receipt Disabler’ Cydia tweak, which does exactly as the name itself suggests. WhatsApp quietly updated its app one night / morning for users to discover some rather odd but blue checkmarks, similar to the grey ones which were there as well and naturally caused a bit of confusion. Remember that surprise package from WhatsApp which shows users if their messages have been read or vice versa? Well thanks to a Cydia tweak, your relationships with your supposedly loved ones doesn’t necessarily have to go sore, despite WhatsApp’s attempt in achieving that.

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