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1/8 I am FURIOUS: WhatsApp has announced that it’s changing its terms to FORCE the sharing of user WA data with Facebook & 3rd parties, reneging on its previous commitment. I will switch to the @signalapp which respects #privacy. #WhatsappNewPolicy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/
2/8 WhatsApp claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, yet is giving its >2bn users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with Facebook or delete their accounts. There is NO legitimate reason for this—it’s purely commercial profit-maximising. #WhatsAppPrivacyPolicy
3/8 Remember Facebook’s woeful record on #privacy: it’s been embroiled in countless scandals incl. the 2016 US election & Cambridge Analytica travesties, & tried to prevent Apple increasing transparency & control for users. Their track record is appalling. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-facebook-ios-privacy-feature-apps-war-app-tracking-transparency-2020-12?op=1
4/8 This is why I’ll fully transition me, my family & work from WA to using the nonprofit @Signalapp which has a cast iron commitment to user #privacy. This is now being discussed in my firm—I call on businesses to reject this violation. #WhatsappPrivacy https://www.wired.co.uk/article/signal-vs-whatsapp
5/8 Facebook’s #WhatsAppPrivacyPolicy assault on #privacy is what @tristanharris calls the “extractive attention economy” & @shoshanazuboff calls Surveillance Capitalism.
We MUST take a stand & we CAN: the @signalapp is free, confidential & better than WA. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zuboff-surveillance-capitalism-assault-human-automomy-digital-privacy
We MUST take a stand & we CAN: the @signalapp is free, confidential & better than WA. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zuboff-surveillance-capitalism-assault-human-automomy-digital-privacy
6/8 If we are docile & allow Facebook yet more invasion of our #privacy, it’ll never end. They will keep taking ever more liberties with us. Privacy is a #UDHR-enshrined #HumanRight. Switch to the @signalapp, get a better service & send a signal to FB! https://bgr.com/2021/01/05/app-privacy-labels-facebook-messenger-vs-imessge-signal-whatsapp/#
7/8 Enough, Zuckerberg—you’ve gone too far this time & have shown (yet again) that you’ve learned none of the lessons of your many previous #privacy scandals. Let’s start a counter-movement of citizens & corporations against this power grab. @EFF @karaswisher #WhatsappNewPolicy
8/8 Finally, as a #CSR professional, I have to comment on how egregious the new #WhatsAppPrivacyPolicy is from a CSR perspective. If FB was serious about its commitment to customers, stakeholders & societal concerns, it would never force this disgraceful ultimatum. #privacy
