The new terms imposed by the messaging service have alarmed many users, because those who refuse to accept them will not be able to access their account starting February 8.
The famous WhatsApp messaging application caught fire on Thursday because it asked the 2 billion users to accept the new conditions of use, which allow it to share more data with the parent company Facebook.
Users who refuse will no longer be able to access their accounts as of February 8.
On Twitter, many users were alerted on Thursday that they gave their consent without having read the changes in detail.
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Depending on the notification that appears on WhatsApp, key updates may collect the following information:
– “WhatsApp service and how we treat your data”
– “How companies can use Facebook-hosted services to store and manage WhatsApp chats.”
It warns you that the measure will take effect from February 8 and that after this date you must, in any case, support the conditions to continue using the platform.
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What do these updates involve?
The group intends to monetize its platform, allowing advertisers to contact their customers via WhatsApp or even sell their products directly in the app, as is already happening in India.
“Updating privacy policies is common in the industry and we provide users with all the information they need to verify the changes, which will take effect on February 8,” a group spokesman said in a statement to AFP.
According to the company, the data that can be shared between WhatsApp and the Facebook application ecosystem (including Instagram and Messenger) includes contact and profile information, except for message content.
Facebook acquired the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014 at a cost of $ 22 billion. Photo / AFP
According to an Infobae publication, these are the data that WhatsApp will share with its Facebook companies:
– Account registration information, such as phone number.
– Operational data.
– Service information.
– Information about how the user interacts with others, including companies.
– Information about the mobile device (battery charging, internet service provider, signal strength, hardware model, operating system …).
– IP address.
But the new conditions differ between the European Union and the rest of the world. In the case of the EU and the United Kingdom, they will only be used to develop the functionalities offered to professional WhatsApp Business accounts, AFP explained.
“WhatsApp does not share the data of its users in Europe with Facebook for Facebook to use this data to improve its products or ads,” said a spokesman for the platform.
Asked by AFP, the National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL), a French internet regulation, recalled that since 2017 an investigation was launched into the consequences of Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for 22,000 million dollars in 2014, including transfer conditions data.
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