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WhatsApp is finally starting to cozy up with parent company Facebook. The company today announced that it’s updating its privacy for the first time in four years to reflect changes to its features as well as its growing connection with Facebook. The main difference is that WhatsApp will now share your phone number with Facebook for better ad targeting (on Facebook; WhatsApp remains ad-free) and friend recommendations, as well as improved statistics and spam prevention. Your number isn’t being shared with anyone publicly, it just feeds into Facebook’s ad algorithm. And your messages remain encrypted. You can opt out from using the…

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