[bestbits] More on Whats App privacy and sharing change

[Norbert Komlan GLAKPE]

Everyone can check out how many user data requects gouvernments are sending
to Facebook at this link:  https://govtrequests.facebook.com/



2016-08-25 17:59 GMT+00:00 Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>:

> https://www.wired.com/2016/08/whatsapp-privacy-facebook/
>
> “In terms of political surveillance and concerns about intrusive
> governmental practices, that’s a legitimate and real concern,” Chester
> says. “Companies like Google and Facebook are placing the lives of
> advocates who work in countries with totalitarian governments at risk. You
> want to minimize data collection, not maximize it.” Facebook received over
> 46,000
> <http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/global-government-requests-report-5/> requests
> from governments for account data in the second half of last year alone.
> The company says it only responds to “valid requests relating to criminal
> cases.” And while Facebook has not suffered a serious data breach that we
> know of, its trove of personal information would make it invaluable to
> hackers.
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