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Is WhatsApp bad for privacy?
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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What use is this knowledge through metadata to them? Let's say I have no Facebook account and no other apps by Meta. There are no ads within WhatsApp. What do they gain by having this data about me?
They know your relationships with other people, and could infer things about you which will be stored in their servers regardless of whether you have a Facebook account, I believe if you search for "shadow accounts" you can read more about that
they can sell the information tied to your phone number or IP address to other companies, so they in turn now what ads to bombard you with.