Wasn't this just the case in the EU? My understanding is in the US they did explicitly have another section about data sharing in the US giving a three point update compared to the two point update we got.
The third bullet point was that the updates includes changes to "How we partner with Facebook to offer integrations across the Facebook Company Products".
The new privacy policy just reformatted how data is shared with facebook from the "Affiliated Companies" section to a new section "How We Work With Other Facebook Companies", but the only real change is, like the bullet point says, an added sentence about how data might be shared to integrate whatsapp into other facebook products, and it's clearly "integrate" in the functional sense.
Similar to facebook messenger recently adding instagram messaging, they're probably planning to add whastapp messenging too. I imagine this change isn't in the EU privacy policy just because just like the integram change, more product integration there is held up by antitrust action.
Notably, facebook using whatsapp data for ad targeting has been allowed by the privacy policy since 2016
The new privacy policy just reformatted how data is shared with facebook from the "Affiliated Companies" section to a new section "How We Work With Other Facebook Companies", but the only real change is, like the bullet point says, an added sentence about how data might be shared to integrate whatsapp into other facebook products, and it's clearly "integrate" in the functional sense.
Similar to facebook messenger recently adding instagram messaging, they're probably planning to add whastapp messenging too. I imagine this change isn't in the EU privacy policy just because just like the integram change, more product integration there is held up by antitrust action.
Notably, facebook using whatsapp data for ad targeting has been allowed by the privacy policy since 2016