How to stop sharing your WhatsApp account information with Facebook

Yesterday WhatsApp took a leap that can become dangerous, since there are many users who do not want their phone number be used for commercial purposes. It is not an attack on privacy or anything, but we already know how Facebook brings them with the information it has, so open the door a little, in the future it may always be that way.

The idea of ​​Facebook and WhatsApp is that companies can contact you directly through the messaging app. Anyway, we can close that door if we want to in a very simple way and then step to explain in a few steps. There is a very quick one and it is when you first read the change in the WhatsApp policy, scroll, press more and you can deactivate the option to share your data.

How to stop sharing your WhatsApp data with Facebook

This second method is the one that you can use at any time to activate or deactivate the option to share your account details with Facebook. So if you ignored that screen that alerts the user about recent changes in WhatsApp, these are the steps to follow:

• Go to the Settings
• Click on Account
• Here you will see a check box next to "Share account information"

• Uncheck this box to be out of the new guidelines imposed by WhatsApp and Facebook

WhatsApp is playing it a bit, since we are about to receive a new messaging app called Allo, from Google, which will be linked to the phone number and could spread like wildfire, as has happened with Pokémon Go or Google Photos.

If we were facing a Facebook that has always been very clear, surely that we would not hesitate so much, but he has sometimes gone through the shadows to perform certain actions, so we remain cautious.

[Updated] By deactivating the option you will have no way to activate it again. We do not know why, but it has more to do with the fact that we have 30 days to notify WhatsApp that we do not want our information to be shared