WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy, users have limited time to accept the new terms and conditions, the limit is till February 8th. The new privacy policy pertains to the latter alone and the former remains unchanged.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy applies to every country, including the US, and users will have to accept the terms and conditions to continue using the service.
It is said Neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see your private messages or hear your calls, Personal messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and will continue.
Moreover the company said-“WhatsApp does not keep logs of who anyone is messaging or calling, it comes under privacy and security risk”.
WhatsApp cannot see a location you have shared with your friend or with your family, because it is too protected by end-to-end encryption, it does not share a user’s contacts with Facebook, or any other app.
No data from groups will be shared with Facebook for ad purposes and all the communication within is end-to-end encrypted. So, if you are a member of an office, RWA or school group, there is nothing to worry as nothing changes for you.
If you use WhatsApp for a business and have a list of clients, the business on the other side too will see the conversation and know your preferences. This could be used to show you ads on Facebook platforms. If you are the business owner, you could use some of the insights to run ads targeting your customers on Facebook and other services.
However in the European Union, users get more control because the EU has a different privacy policy on any software product compared to the rest of the world. EU’s General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the strictest in the world and can even demand erasure of information.
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