Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has announced a big change to its privacy policy which, once a user accepts its new T&Cs, will see it start to share some user data with its parent company ...

WhatsApp provides little information on how it works with the U.S. government. But court documents show just what kind of data it can hand over to the feds, even after its big encryption rollout.

WhatsApp's been sharing account data with Facebook since 2016—which came as a surprise to many of its users. Photograph: John Lamparski/Getty Images ...

WhatsApp also has a footprint that fits with Facebook’s focus on international/emerging markets: The messaging app has users in over a hundred countries covering 750 mobile networks, on the iOS ...

WhatsApp has been sharing data with Facebook for years. But many users didn't realize it until receiving a message saying that they had to consent to further tracking, or WhatsApp would be deleted.

Since Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, users have wondered and worried about how much data would flow between the two platforms.Many of them experienced a rude awakening this week, as a new in ...

Koum, who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for more than $19 billion in 2014, also plans to step down from Facebook’s board of directors, according to these people. The date of his departure isn’t known.

Facebook Messenger’s other advantage over WhatsApp for photos is its natural integration with Facebook. Unlike Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp has a limit of 10 photos per message.

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in global outage hitting the social networks.. All three apps are owned by Facebook, and as a result use the same infrastructure and all stopped ...

Facebook’s own site would not load at all; Instagram and WhatsApp were accessible, but could not load new content or send messages. The outage came amid mounting difficulties for the company.

Are you having trouble using WhatsApp, Facebook, or other Meta apps. Unfortunately, you aren't alone. Here's everything we know about the ongoing outage.

It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in 2014, attempted to justify the decision by saying ads will be sequestered ...