Meta says the hyperlink gained’t be turned on routinely, so it’s as much as you to determine if linking WhatsApp to Accounts Heart is one thing you’re into. When you achieve this, Meta will begin utilizing your WhatsApp data “to do issues like present, personalize, and enhance its services and products, together with to indicate you advertisements,” based on a help page about the change.
Meta’s different apps gained’t use WhatsApp private knowledge “until it’s to find out how many individuals we serve, preserve folks protected, or to offer elective options that work throughout Meta merchandise,” the corporate writes. It additionally says linking your account gained’t change the truth that messages are end-to-end encrypted in WhatsApp.
Down the road, Meta says it should add the power for customers to go to Accounts Heart to handle issues like Meta AI stickers or AI-generated avatars created utilizing its Think about Me characteristic.