After Facebook bought WhatsApp, the messenger changed beyond recognition. This also applies to the application's policy, which has recently been updated once again. There are privacy policies that the user must accept. If he refuses them, he will be suspended from
accessing the
account. Next, you will find detailed information about it.
The meaning of the new rules
Recently, messenger users began receiving
messages about the updated privacy policy of user data. It has changed very
much and not for the better for the consumer.
The messenger will now pass user information to
the entire Facebook application family. This practice has existed before, but
it was voluntary. That is, the user could refuse it. Now there is no such
option. You do not want to transfer data - you will not get access to the
messenger.
The data collected by WhatsApp includes:
Your phone number;
IP address;
Information about your interactions with other
people when using the application;
Details of the device from which you are sitting in the messenger.
These are just the main provisions of the contract. It was originally planned that every WhatsApp user who agrees to use the messenger according to such rules is obliged to accept a new agreement by February 8. However, this news caused a wild outflow of users who began to switch to Telegram and Signal - other applications for instant messaging, in which conditions are not so strict.
Against this background, WhatsApp has decided to postpone the change of rules indefinitely. The company explained this by the fact that a lot of misinformation about it began to appear on the Internet, which damaged the messenger's reputation.
It is likely that by the new date, the policy
will be revised once again and will become more loyal to user data. However,
given the practice of Facebook, the company that has gained the reputation of
the most greedy for information from its consumers, it is hard to believe.
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