WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy, allowing it to connect your phone number with Facebook’s systems.
This is part of its plan to test ways for people to communicate with businesses. WhatsApp said it won’t post or share phone numbers with anyone, including Facebook.
It also stated that your phone number will not be sold to advertisers.
“By connecting your phone number with Facebook’s systems, Facebook can offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them,” said WhatsApp.
“For example, you might see an ad from a company you already work with, rather than one from someone you’ve never heard of.”
The changes to its privacy policy also allow for WhatsApp to “explore ways for you to communicate with businesses that matter to you too”.
This, while still “giving you an experience without third-party banner ads and spam”.
WhatsApp said it wants to test these features in the next several months.
Among the features it wants to test is sending marketing messages.
“We will explore ways for you and businesses to communicate with each other using WhatsApp, such as through order, transaction, and appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service updates, and marketing,” WhatsApp said.
Marketing messages could include an offer for something that might interest you, it explained.
“We do not want you to have a spammy experience; as with all of your messages, you can manage these communications, and we will honor the choices you make.”
This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
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I dont want friend suggestions, I dont eant to communicate with businesses through whatsapp. WhatsApp is private. This way it might be possible for life cover people to go around my spam blocks and send me more spam. They say they want to prevent spam, but how would they know if they cant see the content that is sent?