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WhatsApp Delays Data-Sharing Plans

Apparently, we’re all “confused” about what data it will send to Facebook

Clark Boyd
4 min readJan 25, 2021

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WhatsApp caused quite the ruckus a couple of weeks ago.

It emerged that WhatsApp was set to force users to accept data-sharing with Facebook, or have WhatsApp removed from their device.

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Clark Boyd

Tech/business writer, CEO (Novela), lecturer (Columbia), and data analyst. >500k views on Medium. I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was.