Why you should Delete WhatsApp before entering 2019?

Posted by Rose Molly on December 18th, 2018

Over the past few years, it has become more difficult than expected to defend user's data when it comes to privacy and data security. Some often say that for work and personal reasons they have no option but to your WhatsApp. But do they know that there are some incredible options providing end-to-end encryption and completely secure? 

In the furious discussion about WhatsApp peddling and prying with private communications, there needs to be big one large decision of deleting WhatsApp before entering 2019.

The messaging platform is one of the most dominant digital troupers on internet's mainland and is among the world's top digital companies. But for all its technological muscle, WhatsApp has some deep dark security flaws.

It is also true that not having a Facebook account, restricts you from advertising as the accounts matching is not possible. Facebook in Europe was asked to stop data sharing from WhatsApp. "But have you ever thought, what if the data of billions has been shared already?"

Facebook has been disappointing to delete user's data. Facebook's data practices, incited by its predicament with Cambridge Analytica, for accessing 87 million Facebook users' data became another big reason for hampering data privacy. At the Facebook Congress testimony, Mark Zuckerberg started with "It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here"

We do not precisely know about how our data is misused to influence us without being informed. Need to worry! "Anyways, the important question to ask is that: why do our private conversations are made accessible to hackers, ISP's, government officials?

The decision of deleting WhatsApp is drawn from sharp rebukes of foreign officials trying to use technology for the elections race- Russia used counterfeit accounts for distributing disruptive political messages about the 2016 election. Our default take is to mistrust strangers, but we tend to trust services that are convenient without even knowing much about it. It is simply astonishing to see how easily we trust those private companies using our personal data to improve human life, but we hardly think about privacy and freedom to communicate is taken away and misused. WhatsApp was sold to Facebook for bn which was the beginning of user's privacy being hampered without our authority.

Clearly, it holds information about our contacts, habits along with the content of our private conversations. We create our personal profiles with important information, but do we not ponder about our communications being hampered without our permission.

Unlike last few years, where it was shocking to see how little we knew and cared for data privacy, we are now becoming more aware of our privacy. Today, we regard our private data as a valuable commodity. Not surprisingly, Data privacy is just how our communications should be.

The security issues have been a part of the user's communications for quite long but were largely overlooked.

WhatsApp isn't relevant anymore as interacting with friends or doing business can't be promised to stay private.

While Facebook targeting WhatsApp with advertising, it is an insult to the user's aim of staying connected. Coming to the conclusion, WhatsApp even after providing end-to-end encryption – termed as the gold standard for data privacy – left open the risk of our private conversations being accessed via any third-party "back door".

To be fair to user's security, platforms like Signal are much more secure, strictly regulating the laws of data privacy over the internet. That said, Signal subjects to both "privacy and data integrity". Sadly, this does not apply to WhatsApp. While the US government at times has hunted information from the popular tech giants, all such requests have not been entertained in the case of Signal. WhatsApp does not serve the same level of privacy to its users around the world. This means that people do not expect anything to say on WhatsApp being private after its acquisition by Facebook.