WhatsApp says it will start offering more information to Facebook and will begin giving a few organizations a chance to send messages to clients.

It is the first run through the organization has changed its protection approach subsequent to the firm was purchased by Facebook in 2014.

WhatsApp will now impart clients' telephone numbers to the informal organization, which it will use to give "more significant" companion proposals and commercials.

One examiner said a few people may feel "sold out" by the move.

Information sharing

WhatsApp said imparting clients' telephone numbers to Facebook would handle spam and manhandle, and also offer individuals "better companion recommendations and more applicable advertisements".

Utilizing the information, Facebook will have the capacity to match individuals who have traded telephone numbers, however have not included each other as "companions" on the interpersonal organization.

WhatsApp will likewise share data about when individuals last utilized the administration, however said it would not share the substance of messages, which are scrambled.

"Your scrambled messages stay private and nobody else can read them. Not WhatsApp, not Facebook, nor any other person," the organization said in a blogpost.

The organization said clients would have the capacity to quit imparting data to Facebook by taking after the strides laid out on its site.