New WhatsApp policies postponed to May 15 Ultimatum!

Since the messaging service of How are you announcing the new policies, users of the application expressed their dissatisfaction on social media, which is why they have decided to wait a bit to start implementing them.

The WhatsApp ultimatum to its users, or accept the new privacy policy or deny you the service from February 8, seems to have been postponed.

This is a nice concession from Facebook Inc., the company that owns WhatsApp, so that the 2 billion users of the messaging platform have time to “review the privacy policy at their own pace.

The ultimatum, however, is still in force, with a new date for May 15, this postponement is not due to a massive flight of users, but to the recognition of a communication error of How are you when announcing the new privacy notice.

And is that as you can see, this announcement scared users and caused a wave of rumors and misinformation.

As a catastrophic consequence 2 billion WhatsApp users outside the European Union of the 25 million who fled to other instant messaging providers such as Telegram or Signal.

What these new WhatsApp privacy policies mean is that communications that take place between businesses and users, for example, between a travel agency that dialogues with a potential customer through How are you, May be stored by these companies on Facebook servers.

But it’s all so relevant to the monetization model that Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, was forced to communicate it to users.

It is worth mentioning that Facebook paid for WhatsApp 19 billion dollars, about 280 billion pesos six years ago and that is why it is urgent to increase the monetization of the application, installed on billions of mobile phones in the planet and that in some countries became a generic of digital communication.

One very important thing is that WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, the largest personal data extractor on the planet. Since 2016, WhatsApp shares with Facebook personal data of its users.

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So the news today is that poor communication from WhatsApp alerted users to the protection of their personal information, looted for four years, and this, no doubt, must be celebrated.

This is how after the controversy over the change in its conditions and privacy policies, WhatsApp stated that it will not suspend or delete the accounts of users who have not accepted the new terms on February 8, as its implementation was postponed so that people have more time to review them carefully.

We will do much more to clarify the misinformation about how privacy and security work on WhatsApp, ”the service commented.

Well, given the concern and doubts of users, the company had clarified a few days ago that its platform does not keep records of people who send messages or say, as well as does not show the shared location, does not share your contacts with Facebook and conversations are end-to-end encrypted so no one can see them, other than the users involved in them.

Then we will get people to gradually (by notifying-) review the policy at their own pace, before the new trading options become available on May 15. “

In addition, the service also reiterates that recent updates include new options that people will have to send messages to a company in How are you, When hosting conversations, of business accounts that have chosen so, in a Facebook infrastructure.

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