New York, United States.
The application of WhatsApp Messenger decision this year retrieves the update of its privacy policy, forecast for February 8, to clarify the “confusion” about the reference to use dates with Facebook, the company matrix, and its new options centered on product sales.
The update of the privacy policy has provided a lot of dudas and misinformation about whether significant access by part of Facebook to personal data, contacts or conversations that are maintained in WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging application in the world.
Asimismo, disperse las dudas sober si al no acceptar las new terms of use, the user loses his account and the app disappears from his phone.
“We will return the check as to what the people will see regarding the revision and acceptance of the terms. A nadie se le va a bretel o borrar la cuenta el 8 februero. We also want to do more to clarify the information about privacy and security in WhatsApp“, indicates the company in a communication.
Facebook and its gewilde affiliate branch he intends to deny various times that with the new standards vayan to access the content of messages or llamadas, as well as contact lists of groups or the shared geolocation.
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In the communication of these fires, WhatsApp ensures that “this update is not amplified” to the capacity of “share dates with Facebook“and promises to explain the new policy of us” without prejudice to the options available on May 15 “.
Various media have reported that the new terms of privacy include one more aborted language, which he invited to speculate that Facebook access the dates of WhatsApp, while the company insisted on responding to a mayor protagonism and functionality to communicate with bargains and make purchases.
“Although the people do not use WhatsApp “To buy today’s negotiations, we’re going to have to do more in the future and it’s important that the world is at the mercy of these services,” the statement said.
The messaging application, with 2,000 million users, has a massive exodus to Telegram and signal, which is positioned as the most important in the time to avoid the recovery and use of metadata of its users, pese a que WhatsApp also records the conversations.
Many groups have used the confusion about WhatsApp to extend information about the use of private data by Facebook, in addition, it has been widely criticized in the United States by all Indian collectors, first, for not controlling the language of white supremacist groups and, posteriorly, for banning access.