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Iranian media says WhatsApp, Instagram sharing user data with Israel


vision has urged the public to delete WhatsApp and Instagram from their phones, saying that the platforms are collecting user data to send to Israel. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, rejected the allegations, calling the claims “false”.

Iranian state television has urged the public to delete WhatsApp and Instagram from their phones, saying that the platforms are collecting user data to send to Israel. The former US intelligence whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has blasted Meta's data practices, calling the platform a “surveillance company” profiting from the exploitation of users’ private lives. The exiled NSA whistleblower has accused Meta of acting as an accomplice in mass surveillance rather than a victim of data abuse.

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