Privacy groups ask FTC to block Facebook-WhatsApp deal

The important part from the article is : <i>&quot;until there is a clearer understanding of how the company intends to use the personal data of WhatsApp’s 450 million users&quot;</i><p>FB would be drooling over all the messages, pics &amp; videos on Whatsapp. For person-to-person communication, I prefer a paid app over an ad-supported free one. If I wanted the latter, there are no shortage of options. I wonder how Whatsapp spells out the usage of personal data in their ToS.

Is there a legal way to stop Whatsapp from sharing my address book with Facebook?

Immediately after striking Facebook-WattsApp deal, Koum had mentioned in one of his tweets that users&#x27; privacy and security is their top concern and I hope he sticks to his guns.

Why would any privacy advocate want to block this deal? I can only see this deal being beneficial for privacy in the long run.<p>Facebook are unable to collect data from the service without changing the ToS, which will likely cause a user exodus.<p>It&#x27;s going to put such a huge unrecoverable dent in Facebook&#x27;s finances that it will be a significant long term disadvantage to them.<p>If you are a privacy advocate, wait until the deal completes and then jump ship and bring your friends with you.

This is why I asked about what happened to Mark Zuckerberg since the early days of Facebook regarding privacy in a Reddit AMA.

I just hope WhatsApp doesn&#x27;t hand over deleted accounts&#x27; data to Facebook!