{"id":252357,"date":"2018-03-14T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252357"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:38:34","slug":"whatsapp-will-not-share-data-with-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/252357-whatsapp-will-not-share-data-with-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp will not share data with Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has signed an undertaking not to share user data with Facebook until it can do so in compliance with United Kingdom regulations, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/14\/whatsapp-will-not-share-user-data-with-facebook-until-it-complies-with-gdpr-ico-closes-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office in the UK said it had closed its investigation into how WhatsApp and Facebook share data, and that it will not fine Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/177229-how-to-stop-whatsapp-from-sharing-your-information-with-facebook.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook changed its privacy policy<\/a><\/strong> to allow it to connect your phone number from WhatsApp to Facebook&#8217;s systems.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s announcement was met with criticism from subscribers who saw the move as a betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office summarised\u00a0their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iconewsblog.org.uk\/2018\/03\/14\/whatsapp-signs-public-commitment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/252035-whatsapp-now-lets-you-delete-a-message-for-an-hour.html\">WhatsApp now lets you delete a message for an hour<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has signed an undertaking not to share user data with Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,2594],"class_list":["post-252357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252363,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252357\/revisions\/252363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}