Vincent Steckler, Avast CEO, has not walked the bush in INDIA CeBIT 2015, an event that brings together many professionals to analyze the digital market which is being held this last week of October. And the leader of the popular computer security company said that Facebook spy WhatsApp our conversations to redirect advertising to each user. abc.es
Although many may surprise you this news, for Steckler this is not anything new. The social network Mark Zuckerberg and the popular instant messaging application do what Google has been doing for a long time.
“Google is an advertising company,” Steckler recalled, as stated in the daily “Times of India”. “Their business model is very simple: Spy users to find out what interests them and serves the ad. That is something that we all should know “, said.
In fact, it is a practice that Google does not hide and contemplated the privacy we all accept. “We collect information to provide better services to all our users from determining basic information such as the language you speak, to more complex data, such as ads that will be most useful, the people who matter most to you online or YouTube videos can LIKE “he explains Internet giant in its clauses. Therefore, nobody should be surprised.
And in the same line are placed Facebook and WhatsApp. Do not forget that Zuckerberg bought the messaging application in 2014 after several months of negotiations. “WhatsApp is a data collector to serve advertising within Facebook,” says the CEO of Avast. Therefore, if your conversations deal with some of your hobbies, it is no coincidence that this announcement has just appeared on your Facebook.
Steckler said, nevertheless, that represents a violation of privacy user data. He recalled: “To use WhatApp, each user has to share its database of contact with the platform, which means that they have already provided information about their friends. Have you asked your colleagues permission to do so? “.
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