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WhatsApp's Facebook Data-Sharing Plan Rouses Watchdog

Law360, New York (August 26, 2016, 10:32 PM EDT) -- Mobile messaging service WhatsApp revealed Thursday that it's going to start sharing users' phone numbers and other data with parent company Facebook in order to better target ads, a move that drew immediate backlash from a privacy group that vowed to bring its concerns to the Federal Trade Commission.

In a blog post announcing the first change that it has made to its terms and privacy policy since being acquired by Facebook Inc. in early 2014, WhatsApp said that it planned to begin "coordinating more with Facebook," specifically by sharing WhatsApp account information such as phone numbers with Facebook in an...

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