New York, United States.
The application of WhatsApp messaging decide this Friday to delay updating its privacy policy, scheduled for February 8th, To clear up the “confusion” about the use of data with Facebook, The parent company, and its new options focused on selling products.
The update of the privacy policy has raised many doubts and misinformation as to whether it meant access by Facebook to personal data, contacts or conversations that are held in How are you, The most used messaging application in the world.
He also raised doubts about whether he would not accept them new conditions of use, The user would lose their account and the app would disappear from their phone.
“We will delay the date people will be asked about the review and acceptance of the terms. No one is going to have their account suspended or deleted on February 8th. We will also do more to clarify misinformation about how privacy and security works How are you“, The company said in a statement.
Facebook and its popular messaging affiliate have repeatedly tried to deny that with the new rules they will access the content of messages or calls, as well as contact lists or groups or the shared geolocation.
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In this Friday’s statement, How are you assured that “this update does not expand” its ability to “share data with Facebook“And he promised to explain without haste the new usage policy” before business options become available on May 15. “
Several media outlets have reported that the new privacy terms will include more open language, which has led to speculation that Facebook will access the data from How are you, While the company has insisted that everything responds to greater prominence and functionality to communicate with businesses and make purchases.
“Although people do not use How are you to buy into business today, we believe more people will choose to do so in the future and it is important that the world is aware of these services, ”the statement said.
The messaging app, with about 2 billion users, fears a massive exodus to Telegram and Signal, Who have positioned themselves as the most jealous when it comes to avoiding the collection and use of metadata by their users, despite the fact that How are you it also encrypts conversations.
Many groups have used the confusion about How are you to spread misinformation about the use of private data by Facebook, Which has also been widely criticized in the United States by groups of all kinds, first for not controlling the language of white supremacist groups and later for denying them access.