What’s the first thing you can think of when you hear that Facebook is considering allowing WhatsApp users to share their status updates to Facebook, Instagram, and other apps? If you said “Cool,” that’s understandable — it could be a cool feature! If you think it’s creepy, you’re also right, because this sort of functionality across the various services belonging to any tech company, especially one that collects that much data, can indeed be creepy.
What we’re saying is that Facebook may use this little trick to connect various accounts which could give it even more insight into who you are, for ad sales purposes and more.
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Facebook wants to let you share your WhatsApp status to Facebook and Instagram originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 19:37:41 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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