Why did Facebook buy WhatsApp?
As we can see in the video, WhatsApp, over the years has become an essential app for all smartphones users. It allows you to instantly communicate with all the contacts in the phonebook of the smartphone for free with millions and millions of users subscribed to this service.
In recent days, Facebook, one of the most used social network, bought WhatsApp for $ 19 billion, making the largest investment of his life. What could be the reason that prompted Facebook to shell out a sum so high to buy it? Surely to make sure that the two complement each other perfectly App is attracting more and more new users. Now a problem arises: the treatment of personal data and our privacy. Facebook has promised that will not change the policies of the app, but it is easy to predict that it will propose to the users to connect their social network account with one of the chat.
That would mean not only learn about the tastes and inclinations of its members , but also know who they talk on the phone and where. What then would be more nectar for companies , as well as another form of invasion of privacy. But now that does not surprise us anymore.
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