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WhatsApp's Privacy Policy explains what data WhatsApp collects about you, how it is used, and who it is shared with. Your messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and deleted from WhatsApp's servers once delivered, but information about you—including your phone number—can be stored and reshared by anyone you communicate with, and is shared with Meta Companies for advertising. To fully delete your data, you must use the in-app account deletion feature rather than simply uninstalling the app.
WhatsApp's Privacy Policy establishes the conditions under which WhatsApp collects, uses, retains, and shares user information in connection with its Services. WhatsApp requires a mobile phone number and profile name for account creation, and automatically collects device and connection data upon installation, access, or use. The policy provides end-to-end encryption designed to prevent WhatsApp and third parties from reading message content, while delivered messages are deleted from WhatsApp's servers and undelivered messages are retained in encrypted form for up to 30 days. User information is shared with Meta Company Partners for targeted advertising across Meta products, with successor entities in corporate transactions, and with government or law enforcement based on WhatsApp's good-faith belief of legal necessity. The policy explicitly acknowledges that third parties a user communicates with—including businesses and their service providers—may store or reshare user information, including phone numbers and message content, outside WhatsApp's control.
As an individual user, your message content is protected by end-to-end encryption and WhatsApp deletes delivered messages from its servers, but your phone number, profile information, and device data are collected and shared with Meta Companies, used for targeted advertising across Meta products, and may be disclosed to governments based on WhatsApp's own good-faith assessment. Any person or business you message can store and reshare your phone number or message content with others on or off WhatsApp, and businesses may grant their third-party service providers—potentially including Meta—access to those communications. If you want to stop WhatsApp from retaining your information, you should use the in-app 'delete my account' feature rather than simply uninstalling the app.
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27 important changes detected
38 versions captured · Last updated: July 2026
WhatsApp's privacy policy update on July 6, 2026 modified three sentences in the document. The specific substantive changes to the policy language were not detailed in the detection report, which …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy was updated on July 3, 2026 with three sentences modified in the introductory section. The change does not appear to alter substantive data practices or user rights; …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy was updated on June 25, 2026. The update modified 3 sentences in the document. The specific operational changes in the modified sentences are not disclosed in the …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy website was updated on June 24, 2026, with three sentences modified. The changes detected in the HTML markup involve updates to resource URLs, tokens, and stylesheets used …
View change record →WhatsApp updated its Privacy Policy on June 22, 2026, making two substantive changes. First, the policy removed language stating 'We have no intention to introduce them, but you may see …
View change record →WhatsApp added a new section titled 'Privacy Rights for United States Residents' that directs users to a separate United States Regional Privacy Notice for information about consumer privacy rights available …
View change record →The diff context provided contains primarily HTML markup and JavaScript code from WhatsApp's website infrastructure, not substantive policy language changes. The before/after snippets show nearly identical website code with minor …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy was updated on June 19, 2026. The change affected three sentences within the document's HTML structure, including modifications to authentication tokens and technical identifiers used in the …
View change record →The detected change in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy on June 18, 2026 involves modifications to 3 sentences within the document's 123-sentence structure. The provided diff context shows updates to technical tokens, …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy document was updated on June 18, 2026 with technical modifications to three sentences in the policy text. The changes involve updates to authentication tokens, cross-origin resource sharing …
View change record →WhatsApp's Privacy Policy on June 16, 2026 contains changes across 3 sentences within its structure, though the specific content modifications are not clearly evident from the provided HTML diff. The …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy document underwent technical updates on June 14, 2026, including modifications to three sentences within the 123-sentence policy. The detected changes involved updates to code tokens and resource …
View change record →The detected change involves modifications to three sentences within WhatsApp's Privacy Policy document, updated on June 13, 2026. The provided diff context shows HTML structural changes and metadata updates (including …
View change record →The WhatsApp Privacy Policy was updated on June 12, 2026, but the provided change summary contains only HTML metadata and header/footer markup changes with no substantive privacy policy language modifications …
View change record →WhatsApp updated its privacy policy on June 12, 2026, with modifications to 3 sentences within the document. The provided diff context shows changes to metadata tokens and HTML structure elements, …
View change record →WhatsApp updated the contact form URL in its Privacy Policy from a form identifier ending in '696255948470523' to one ending in '915483389072145', a routine technical update to the support contact …
View change record →WhatsApp added two new sections to its privacy policy on June 11, 2026. The first establishes a new 'Privacy Rights for United States Residents' section directing users to a separate …
View change record →WhatsApp updated five sentences in its privacy policy on June 10, 2026. The change removed conditional language stating 'We have no intention to introduce [ads] in Status and Channels' and …
View change record →WhatsApp's Privacy Policy was updated on June 9, 2026, but the provided diff shows only HTML metadata and JavaScript configuration changes, not substantive policy content. The actual text modifications to …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy document underwent minor technical updates on June 8, 2026, with three sentences modified across the HTML-formatted policy page. The changes appear to involve updates to resource file …
View change record →The detected change consists of three sentence-level modifications in WhatsApp's Privacy Policy captured on June 6, 2026. The diff context shows modifications to HTML metadata tokens and script parameters, as …
View change record →WhatsApp updated its privacy policy on June 6, 2026 by modifying five sentences. The changes included adding a new section titled 'Privacy Rights for United States Residents' that directs users …
View change record →WhatsApp removed language stating it has no intention to introduce ads in Status and Channels, replacing it with a more conditional statement that reserves the right to introduce ads in …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy was updated on June 5, 2026, with three sentences modified in the document. The updated language maintains the core structure of the policy while updating HTML metadata …
View change record →WhatsApp's privacy policy was updated on June 4, 2026 to add a new section titled 'Privacy Rights for United States Residents' directing users to a separate California-specific privacy notice for …
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