Are You using WhatsApp everyday?
WhatsApp is the world’s largest social media chatting platform. The service is owned by Facebook and gathers millions of users on its platform.
The App service is constantly updated with new features and this time around the company has released its new update which comes with new and updated terms and policies.
Then everyone is freaked out by the new Whatsapp policy, they panicked and switched to other chat applications, like Telegram and Signal. Even the founder of Telegram spoke up about how terrible the new WhatsApp policies are.
Why should we be afraid?
There's so many user data that is collected automatically by WhatsApp :
Information about messaging, calling, Status, groups (including group name, group picture, group description), payments or business features. profile photo, “about” information,
whether you are online, your “last seen”, and when you last updated your “about” information.
Hardware model, operating system information, battery level, signal strength, app version, browser information, mobile network, connection information (including phone number, mobile operator or ISP), language and time zone, IP address, device operations information, and identifiers.
There's so many user data that is collected automatically by WhatsApp :
Information about messaging, calling, Status, groups (including group name, group picture, group description), payments or business features. profile photo, “about” information,
whether you are online, your “last seen”, and when you last updated your “about” information.
Hardware model, operating system information, battery level, signal strength, app version, browser information, mobile network, connection information (including phone number, mobile operator or ISP), language and time zone, IP address, device operations information, and identifiers.
If you care about privacy, this is certainly a massive privacy violation.
Then if you have Uninstalled Whatsapp, are you safe? Unfortunately NO
Almost every app that you use tracks you. Apps want your location data, even apps like a notepad.
They want to see how long you are using an app, with who you are talking to, who all are in your contacts, what sort of photos are there in your gallery, at what time you use your phone, where you go everyday, and they do it every time you give them permission.
A lot of app will ask for GPS permission, photo gallery, contacts, camera access.
But, deleting WhatsApp will not help you much, unless you also delete Facebook and delete Instagram too.
In fact, get rid of all the non-essential apps. If you can live without an app, don’t install it.
Those Beauty Cam apps? Don’t install them. Those Marketplace apps? Maybe install just one.
All the video and photo-editing apps? Get rid of the ones you don’t use.
Do you know there is even a marketplace apps that asks for your mom's name when you want to withdraw the deposit money. Your mom's name is ussually used for bank verification, and it's terrible if that data is leaked one day
Digital privacy is hard work. This is because you are fighting a battle against some very smart people,
and some very big companies that are interested in your data.
Then if you have Uninstalled Whatsapp, are you safe? Unfortunately NO
Almost every app that you use tracks you. Apps want your location data, even apps like a notepad.
They want to see how long you are using an app, with who you are talking to, who all are in your contacts, what sort of photos are there in your gallery, at what time you use your phone, where you go everyday, and they do it every time you give them permission.
A lot of app will ask for GPS permission, photo gallery, contacts, camera access.
But, deleting WhatsApp will not help you much, unless you also delete Facebook and delete Instagram too.
In fact, get rid of all the non-essential apps. If you can live without an app, don’t install it.
Those Beauty Cam apps? Don’t install them. Those Marketplace apps? Maybe install just one.
All the video and photo-editing apps? Get rid of the ones you don’t use.
Do you know there is even a marketplace apps that asks for your mom's name when you want to withdraw the deposit money. Your mom's name is ussually used for bank verification, and it's terrible if that data is leaked one day
Digital privacy is hard work. This is because you are fighting a battle against some very smart people,
and some very big companies that are interested in your data.
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