A few days ago we changed the year, a night in which mobile devices take center stage again because they keep us in contact with all our relatives. This year even more due to the different restrictions that each one of us has had. WhatsApp pulled out its chest for all the traffic it had during the night of December 31, a few years ago everyone talked about the sms and calls that were made, now everyone talks about WhatsApp. But everything won't be good WhatsApp will update its privacy policy, and yes, it will share more of our data with Facebook. Keep reading that we tell you all the details of the update.
In case you don't remember, Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014That is why, as the parent company, it has control of the messaging app. With the change of year they want to change the terms and conditions of WhatsApp updating its privacy policy. An update that some users are already receiving and that focuses on how WhatsApp is going to process user data.
Will as of February 8, 2021 when we, as WhatsApp users, will share with Facebook the registration of our WhatsApp account as well as our telephone number, our transaction data, information related to the service, interaction information, mobile device information, IP address and "other identified information ... or obtained prior notification to you or based on your consent." And this for what? according to Facebook the information will be used to "understand how our services or yours are used", "Improve your services," "make suggestions for you," "customize features and content," and "display relevant offers and advertisements on Facebook Company Products."
Now, This new policy change does not have to be bad (or good)In the end we all benefit from a free application, the most used in instant messaging. We have many more applications that do the same as WhatsApp, but because it is the one most used by users, they maintain that privileged status. What we have to be clear about is that there is nothing free, and if they offer it to us, we are probably paying with our information. Is question of each one that we decide if we are more interested in using WhatsApp to be in contact with our contacts, worth the redundancy, or if we prefer that the giant of social networks, Facebook, does not know anything about us ...
If they already stole excessive data before, imagine now ... I have been years without WhatsApp, I unsubscribed years ago when they changed the terms of service so that you would give them permission to steal everything they wanted from your mobile. And my life HAS IMPROVED, even now I have a better relationship with my friends and we stay longer. And not only that, the time that does not make me waste with groups sending jokes, memes and images that have nothing to do with the group, and then additional time to clean up all that garbage that you do not want and for some reason on your mobile. reason whatsapp forces you to store on your mobile taking up space.
You have to give "Later", do not accept for any reason.
In the EU it would not affect us.
… But if you give express consent, they CAN share your data. If it sneaks, sneaks, and whoever falls, well caught.