SC must stop WhatsApp from sharing user data with Facebook: Here's why
Unless stopped, WhatsApp could share users' personal information with third parties Facebook paid $22 billion (Rs.1,472.79 crore) – or, almost 2.5 times Facebook’s 2013 gross revenues – to buy WhatsApp, a company with net loss of over $138 million at the time. Why? One obvious reason, of course, was to stave off potential competition and start its way towards becoming a social media conglomerate. Less talked about, however, is how the acquisition would allow Facebook access to WhatsApp’s user base and user data – Whatsapp accounts for over 1 billion users who make over 500 million phone calls, share 700 million photos, 100 million videos and 1 billion messages a day. India, with over 160 million active users, is WhatsApp’s biggest market and conceivably contributed significantly to the above valuation. WhatsApp will become the owner of the photos, texts and information that Indians exchange on the app, and if it decides, Wh...