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The Federal Government, through the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has kicked against WhatsApp’s updated Privacy Policy.
The Policy states that the application will share information about the users on their platform with their parent company (Facebook), as well as other sister companies.
The information includes user phone numbers, “transaction data, service-related information, information on how you interact with others (including businesses) when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address”.
Furthermore, WhatsApp has indicated that users who refuse to accept their revised privacy policy risk not being able to use the service at all.
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Nigerian govt kicks as WhatsApp moves to share user information with Facebook, others
The Federal Government, through the Minister of
Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has kicked
against WhatsApp’s updated Privacy Policy.
The Policy states that the application will share
information about the users on their platform with their parent company
(Facebook), as well as other sister companies.
The information includes user phone numbers, “transaction
data, service-related information, information on how you interact with others
(including businesses) when using our Services, mobile device information, your
IP address”.
Furthermore, WhatsApp has indicated that users who refuse to
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Nigeria has a large population of telecoms subscribers, which reached over 200 million as at January 2021, with a teledensity of 104.89 per cent.
The figure, which keeps rising on a weekly basis, has placed Nigeria as the country with the fastest growing telecoms market in Africa and the entire world.
However, one unique feature about Nigerian subscribers is that each adult Nigerian has a minimum of two mobile phones with four SIM cards, because each mobile phone built for the African market, comes with two SIM slots. So on the average, an adult Nigerian has four lines (SIM Cards) from different telecoms service providers.