Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is thinking about the merger of WhatsApp with Facebook Messager. The biggest question since Zuckerberg’s statement is that users who use WhatsApp are piling up on data security. Facebook told that it is working on end-to-end encryption to protect users data.

The end-to-end encryption means that no human can see those messages. User’s data is already protected under the end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp. But to take this feature on Facebook, users have to choose the option of secure messages. So far, Facebook has not provided any end-to-end encryption facility on Instagram.

Talking about the merger, Zuckerberg said, “These three apps will remain separate and the efforts are to bring end-to-end encryption on all platforms.” However, it has not been clear yet that all three apps How the end-to-end encryption will work after the merger. A New York Times report claims that this is a long process. After the change, If Facebook’s user messages to someone who is only on WhatsApp, then the message will remain in end-to-end encryption.

That’s why the threat to privacy

Due to rules regulating the messaging service, Facebook may have to face difficulties by merging it. However, an old Facebook security engineer believes that this step can prove to be good for the protection of people’s data.

But many tech experts believe Facebook can use this data for more advertising. There is also a problem in this merging that anyone on Messenger can connect with anyone without any ID or mobile number. This merger can also threaten the safety of people’s phone numbers.

New Delhi: If you have installed the Facebook app on your phone or used this platform, then there is startling news for you. Research has found that even if you are not on this platform, your friends are leaking your information. Research has been disclosed by the University of Vermont America and the University of Adelaide Australia. It has been said in this research that if a person leaves the social media platform or never joins them, then the posts written by his friends leak 95 percent of that person’s information.

To confirm that, the scientists took out data of 30 million public posts and 13905 Twitter users, to confirm this. With the help of this data, information from a tweet or a tweet from eight or 9 people will be enough to reveal person identity.

When you sign up on any social media platform, you feel you have given your information, but you also leak your friend’s information along with it. This is what mathematician James Bagro believes is part of this research. It was informed in this research that a company, government or an actor can know about any user about his interest in politics, favorite products, religious affiliation, in which information has been shared through his friends. There are also people who have never made an account on Facebook.

A professor said that you can not hide on the social network anymore, while the other feels that you are only controlling your privacy but it is not, because you are controlling your privacy with a lot of people.