WhatsApp users are receiving an in-app notice today regarding the service’s new terms and privacy policy. The notice, as you can see in the attached screenshot, talks about three key updates that affect how WhatsApp processes your data, how businesses can use Facebook hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats, and how WhatsApp will soon partner with Facebook to offer deeper integrations across all of the latter’s products. It further reveals that these changes will go into effect on February 8th, and users will have no choice but to accept these changes if they wish to continue using WhatsApp.
If you agree to the changes, here’s all the information WhatsApp will share with other Facebook companies: “The information we share with the other Facebook Companies includes your account registration information (such as your phone number), transaction data, service-related information, information on how you interact with others (including businesses) when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent.”
Seeing I left Facebook on principle around how they mismanage and sell off personal data I won’t be accepting these terms, so it looks like that is the end of my Whatsapp I fondly remember when it started up. I am very active though on Telegram and Signal so there are lots of alternatives in life and I won’t miss those annoying Whatsapp Groups that erupt at odd hours with off-topic information.
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WhatsApp is updating its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook. The new changes go into effect on February 8th.