Given that Whatsapp was recently sold to Facebook for a whopping 19 billion dollars, it is back in the limelight with the concerns surrounding its privacy policy. It has been criticized by the Canadian Privacy Commission for collecting too many phone numbers of non-Whatsapp users through scanning address books. Also, it is unclear as to whether they store all messages that get sent with their app. It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out, and whether these concerns will crystallize into changes with their privacy policy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/21/whatsapp-comes-under-new-scrutiny-for-privacy-policy-encryption-gaffs/
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