Does WhatsApp save the pictures for their own use?
Does their TOS/Privacy Policy outline what they (if anything) do with photos? I do not have whatsapp or facebook, so I don't know, but similar to OP, many family members do.
Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the
ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Once your
messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice
messages, files, and share location information) are
delivered, they are deleted from our servers. Your messages
are stored on your own device. If a message cannot be
delivered immediately (for example, if you are offline), we
may keep it on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to
deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days,
we delete it. To improve performance and deliver media
messages more efficiently, such as when many people are
sharing a popular photo or video, we may retain that content
on our servers for a longer period of time. We also offer
end-to-end encryption for our Services, which is on by
default, when you and the people with whom you message use a
version of our app released after April 2, 2016. End-to-end
encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect
against us and third parties from reading them.
Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the
ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Once your
messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice
messages, files, and share location information) are
delivered, they are deleted from our servers. Your messages
are stored on your own device. If a message cannot be
delivered immediately (for example, if you are offline), we
may keep it on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to
deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days,
we delete it. To improve performance and deliver media
messages more efficiently, such as when many people are
sharing a popular photo or video, we may retain that content
on our servers for a longer period of time. We also offer
end-to-end encryption for our Services, which is on by
default, when you and the people with whom you message use a
version of our app released after April 2, 2016. End-to-end
encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect
against us and third parties from reading them.
Does their TOS/Privacy Policy outline what they (if anything) do with photos? I do not have whatsapp or facebook, so I don't know, but similar to OP, many family members do.