

Whatsapp recently introduced payments via UPI (see how it works) in India in closed beta.

The Cambridge Analytica Scandal has raised new questions about invasion of privacy in the digital space. To send payment instructions to PSPs, maintain your transaction history, provide customer support, and keep our Services safe and secure, including to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, safety, security, abuse, or other misconduct, we share information we collect under this Payments Privacy Policy with third-party service providers including Facebook What could this mean for you? While your WhatsApp messages are encrypted end-to-end, your payments data may not be very safe.Īccording to this TechRadar report, WhatsApp’s terms and conditions have a few clauses that could mean they are sharing your financial data to Facebook.

Is your financial data safe with WhatsApp? WhatsApp sharing your data with Facebook? Have you been using WhatsApp payments? While it allows you to send money easily to anyone that has it enabled in your contacts, it also comes with questions of privacy.
