What information WhatsApp collects about you ... Pay attention to it
Some applications, such as WhatsApp, advertise their privacy, and although the platform is completely free and does not display advertisements to its users in exchange for the service, it collects a lot of user data as shown by the private nutrition posters provided by all the applications available on the Apple App Store. Under the transparency.
According to the indiatoday site, users of the most popular instant messaging application "WhatsApp" on iPhone phones can now see all the information that WhatsApp collects from them, and understand all the ways in which this information is used for targeted ads, despite the message encryption system. Of the platform, but it continues to collect a lot of data on its users.
The following is a review of the information that WhatsApp collects from all iPhone users according to the App Store, from Apple:
1. Device or ID type: This is the device identifier
Or, basically, the digital signature of your phone that you have installed "WhatsApp" on, which is a unique number for each phone through which WhatsApp knows the type of your phone, its version, and its operating system, and this one identifier may link all the data that Facebook has and make it useful for tracking the user and the targeted advertisement .
2. Usage data:
This data is an important part where "Facebook" says that this data is used for advertising, through which WhatsApp can know the duration of your use of the application and at what exact time and for what purpose to make voice or video calls or conversations, in addition to the number of messages that you sent or exchanged via Platform.
3. Purchasing:
This is likely to be data related to any purchase you made using "WhatsApp", as the service recently introduced a digital marketplace feature to help people buy things through the app in some countries.
4. Location: where you are and in which city
And in any region, but not in any home, because WhatsApp collects general, but not specific, location data.
5. Contact information:
Of course your phone number.
6. User content:
WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, and WhatsApp cannot access them for advertising or even analysis purposes, but the application most likely collects from you the backgrounds that you use on the platform.
7. Personalities:
WhatsApp can collect data on application crashes, network conditions, etc.
8. Contacts: WhatsApp can access all your contacts
in the contact list, as it is the main way it works.
9. Financial Information:
The application "WhatsApp" collects payment information details when you use WhatsApp Pay.
