WhatsApp’s new ‘privacy’ policy is a gift to other messaging apps

When WhatsApp made clear that it planned to share a lot more information with parent company Facebook, including sensitive data such as phone number, device particulars and location, some users were not happy. But WhatsApp didn’t just make those changes. It included them in a new privacy policy and asked users to agree or not.

TechCrunch noted that users who don’t agree will soon become non-users.

“In an email to one of its merchant partners, …Facebook-owned WhatsApp said it will ‘slowly ask’ such users to comply with the new terms ‘in order to have full functionality of WhatsApp’ starting May 15,” TechCrunch reported. “If they still don’t accept the terms, ‘for a short time (later defined as “a few weeks”), these users will be able to receive calls and notifications, but will not be able to read or send messages from the app. WhatsApp’s policy for inactive users states that accounts are ‘generally deleted after 120 days of inactivity.'”

To read this article in full, please click here