If you use WhatsApp – as around 30 million British people do – then you’ve probably already seen that the chat app is planning some changes. But that note also laid out Facebook’s long-term plans for WhatsApp: merging the chat app with the company’s wider social network, in the name of “interoperability”. Already, Facebook and Instagram users can send direct messages to each other without needing to switch apps. The company was recently forced by Apple to provide a privacy “nutritional label” on its iOS app, revealing how it works with user data. But the change does start to eat away at the idea that you can be on WhatsApp without a Facebook footprint.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2021 07:00 UTC