{"id":98960,"date":"2016-08-27T23:26:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=98960"},"modified":"2016-08-28T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T15:28:08","slug":"alert-quickly-opt-sharing-whatsapp-account-info-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/alert-quickly-opt-sharing-whatsapp-account-info-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"[Alert] Quickly opt out of sharing your Whatsapp account info to Facebook!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people might not be aware of the latest update of the very popular messaging app Whatsapp. \u00a0In case you missed it, this popular messaging app has opened up a privacy-related can of worms by sharing its users\u2019 details with its parent company – Facebook. Although the update is still rolling out so it might not be on your phone yet, but here are a few easy steps to avoid\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg from knowing\u00a0more about you.<\/p>\n

Pay EXTRA attention to the push notification<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many\u00a0usually choose to ignore when it comes to terms and conditions, but this time it’s actually quite important. If you simply tap “Agree” you are going to hand your data over to Facebook.<\/p>\n

Solution: Tap “Read” to view the Key Updates screen (as shown above) then toggle OFF so that WhatsApp will no longer share your details with Facebook automatically.<\/p>\n

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What you can do if you missed the Ts and Cs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even if you already agreed to share you details, it’s not too late as you still have one way to cancel it. But this\u00a0option would only be available for 30 days after you receive the update notification above.<\/p>\n

All you have to do is to simply open WhatsApp, go into Settings -> Account, then uncheck\u00a0the box saying “Share my account info” as shown below.<\/p>\n

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Don’t let your personal information expose to Facebook, act now !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read to learn a few easy steps that avoid Mark Zuckerberg from knowing more about you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":98976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,3190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studteac","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/whtsap_banner.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-pK8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}