"This means that a majority of Americans who are using WhatsApp and/or Waze are doing so without realising that all of their information, whether it be routes, travel time, messages, photos, or location data, is privy to Facebook (for WhatsApp) and Google (for Waze)," said the survey.Īccording to the survey, the lack of awareness over Facebook and Google's reach is even more alarming as more and more Americans are looking to take control of their privacy online.Ī previous survey by DuckDuckGo found that 56.9 per cent of American adults were unaware that Facebook owns Instagram and 44.6 per cent did not even know that Google owns YouTube.įacebook in 2014 acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion. It works on smartphones and tablet computers that have GPS support. Waze is a popular GPS navigation software. The findings also showed that nearly 60 per cent of those who used Waze in the past six months didn't know that Google owns Waze. "Half of those who used WhatsApp in the past six months weren't aware that Facebook owns WhatsApp," said the survey. "We randomly selected 1,297 US adults (not just DuckDuckGo users) who are collectively demographically similar to the general population of US adults and surveyed them on August 16, 2018. In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for 16 billion, making its co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton very wealthy men.Koum continues to lead the company, but Acton quit earlier this year to. T may sound bizarre but nearly 50 per cent of Americans who have used WhatsApp in the last six months have no idea who owns the popular mobile messaging platform.Īccording to a survey by DuckDuckGo, the US-based privacy-protecting search engine, just over half of US citizens (50.42 per cent) do not know WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.
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