The new WhatsApp terms of use will come into effect on February 8.
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WhatsApp plans to renew its terms of use by February 8.
From this date, all messaging users will have to share their data with Facebook and its various entities, reports Phonandroid.
Some people have already received a notification informing them of this change, which might go unnoticed at first.
The application, acquired by Facebook in 2014, indeed presents these new conditions as more advantageous in terms of security and integrity.
Uh, how's that after February 8 we won't have a choice ?!
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- 🦋 (@FlawlessSelala_) January 7, 2021
Profile picture, contacts and IP address
Sharing data with Facebook, Instagram or Messenger would thus allow WhatsApp to “operate, provide, improve, understand, personalize, support and market [its] services and their offers”.
Except that the messaging system will soon be able to transmit a significant amount of information about its users by not leaving them the choice to refuse.
Your phone number, your name, your profile picture, your status, your contacts, your transaction data or even your IP address may thus be communicated to the social network and its subsidiaries.
Until now, WhatsApp left the choice to its users to refuse such sharing of personal data.
The app could be shunned
Those who do not accept its terms of use will soon no longer be able to use the application and will only have to uninstall it.
This provision concerns all countries of the world and represents a turning point.
Indeed, WhatsApp has so far been a good student in the protection of personal data.
This new trajectory could push users to download alternative messaging services that are more respectful of privacy, such as Signal.
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