to warn you all WhatsApp will share your data unless you opt out in 30 days

[madhurjazz]

As if fb people you know couldn't get any more stalky they are going to share your number unless you go to settings and opt out within 30 days.

That's interesting Shelagh - they've been getting some bad press in the techy world for this very hidden "agreement" so many they are changing how it is presented.

I can't see the issue.

Targeted advertising and more "people you may know". So what? Scroll past the advertising and people you may know is er actually useful? And you have to click on it anyway!

Bettie I agree with you that the OP was worded in a way to suggest that more is happening than really is.

Why is everyone panicking?
FB is free to use... the money to develop it has to come from somewhere. The advertisers are paying so we don't have to.
All that happens now is that you will receive adverts that are of more interest to you. You will always see adverts on FB so you might as well see ones that are relevant.
Keep calm and carry on 😀

I don't really get the issue? My facebook contacts and wattsapp contacts are the same people anyway? I don't know if I'm missing something.

I don't allow Facebook access to my phone contacts and I'd be bloody pissed off if they accessed them by stealth.

They already pester me every so often for my phone number 'to improve security', when actually they really want to harvest my data.

"Harvest my data" sounds so insidious though. Your contacts? Meh.

How do you know it's not insidious?

Perhaps ironically, I knew about this only because it popped up in the "trending" sidebar on Facebook. I've opted out now.

I can't really see this as any big deal.

If you happy to share your data then it isn't a big deal.

If you take pains to minimise that sharing then it is a big deal.

It might not be a big deal to some of you but for some of us chose to use WhatsApp specifically for it's end to end encryption, and it's non intrusiveness. Now it's been bought by Facebook it's just another data farming machine, and I want to opt out of that.

Not only because I think it's insidious how much information Facebook already has on us and how they use it, but practically I really don't want them using what I've chatted about to tailor ads to me.

I think the controversial bit, as I understand it, is that it will allow algorithms to monitor your messages to look for key words to improve targeted advertising. So it's not like someone is sat there reading your messages, but it's still a bit invasive...

When you look into it Facebook's reach is pretty scary.

I also couldn't believe this www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10944613/Facebook-conducted-widespread-experiments-on-user-data-to-alter-peoples-behaviour.html

I got my update yesterday on iPhone and there was a very clear yes or no slider. Didn't have to hunt in the t&c at all.

Shelagh that was different to what I got. It was a T&C thing with AGREE at the bottom. But there was a small upside down one of these ^ and if you pressed that, there was the option to share your data with FB. At that point you had to untick it (if that's what you wanted) and then press AGREE.

I had the same Roussette

All advertisers want to 'alter' the way we think to encourage us to buy their products. As soon as you accept that FB is a marketing/ adertising tool that just so happens to enable you to communicate with family and friends the sooner none of this will bother you.
There's nothing sinister going on.

There's a difference between playing on your emotions to sell you products, and manipulating your emotions for use in a study, a study you have not agreed to participate in.

I have phone numbers in my phone that I don't want knowing about my fb page. I keep my social media accounts separate to the best of my ability. I'd like to keep it that way too.

Thanks for this. I'd been clicking 'not now' but I've finally accepted and unchecked the share on FB thingy!!

Well I'm sure 99% of people done care about their data being mined.

Minesweeper that is probably only the tip of the iceberg.