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what's app to share data with Facebook popular messaging app whatsapp announced changes to a privacy policy where it will begin connecting phone numbers to its parent company Facebook to sign up to use whatsapp you need to input and verify your phone number Facebook will also receive data analytics from whatsapp ok so what's the plan whatsapp says that the information being shared will help fight spam and abuse Facebook will use the information it gets from whatsapp to offer friends suggestions and it should help with everyone's favorite thing targeted ads whatsapp says it will not post or share your whatsapp number with others including on Facebook and it will not sell or share phone numbers with advertisers additionally whatsapp assures users that Facebook will not be able to read your encrypted messages if you do not have a Facebook account which is really really impressive whatsapp will not require you to create one whatsapp's updated terms and conditions is also letting everyone know that the company is working on ways to allow businesses to contact users whatsapp gave a few examples of how a business would interact with the user like getting flight information or receipt Facebook announced it would purchase whatsapp back in 2014 for a whopping 19 billion dollars at the time whatsapp had 450 million users in February 2016 whatsapp announced it hit the 1 billion user mark we'll see if those billion people are happy with the changes that's it for this tech news update Mya's actor and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash