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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

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WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

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Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebook

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What? The communications app owned by Facebook is using data from other Facebook owned platforms to target ads? Who could have ever seen this coming!

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