UK data privacy regulator to track WhatsApp’s data sharing with Facebook

The UK’s data privacy regulator will monitor how the mobile messaging app WhatsApp shares data with parent business Facebook following an update to its privacy policy.
The Information Commission’s Officer (ICO) aims to ensure that WhatsApp is being transparent about what and how its users' data are shared, observing that new policy would likely split opinion among them. Under the new policy, the phone numbers of the more than one billion users of the app will be shared with Facebook,