The announcement of the new terms and conditions for using the messaging service caused outraged users to migrate to other applications.
After the controversy caused by the new privacy policies announced by WhatsApp, the company decided to explain to users what will happen to those who do not update the conditions and terms that will take effect from May 15, 2021.
The messaging service has indicated through its official blog that if you do not accept the new policies by that date, you will not be left without your account, but you will lose some of its features.
Whatsapp. Photo / Pixabay.
“If you have not accepted by then, WhatsApp will not delete your account. However, it will not have the full functionality of WhatsApp until you accept it “, explains the company that is part of Facebook.
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That is, “for a short period of time,” you can receive calls and notifications, but you can’t “read or send messages from the app,” he says.
According to WhatsApp, after May 15, you can accept updates to continue enjoying the application and, while doing so, will continue to apply the policy of inactive users. According to the Colombian press El Tiempo, this regulation stipulates that, after 120 days of inactivity, the account will be deleted.
WhatsApp was created in 2009 but has become very popular in
2012, thus moving the SMS service.
However, before the date stipulated for the effective date of the new policy, it also gives you the option to export “chat history to Android or iPhone and download a report from your account”.
But make it clear that if you decide to delete your account, all your message history will be deleted, “delete it from all its WhatsApp groups” and even the backups will disappear.
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The changes announced by WhatsApp earlier this year are related to the data that the platform shares with other companies on Facebook. In addition to the new functions that companies with corporate accounts will have in the application, indicated the Colombian media.
The announcement of the new terms and conditions for using the messaging service caused outraged users to migrate to other applications in January last year, including Telegram and Signal.
Initially, the measure was scheduled to take effect on February 8, 2021, but the controversy led the company to transfer it by May 15.
Facebook acquired the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014 at a cost of $ 22 billion. Photo / AFP
Acquired by Facebook in 2014 for 22 billion dollars, WhatsApp is a strategic asset for Mark Zuckerberg’s group, which is seeing the growth of its social network, experts said.
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