02/22/2021 1:44 PM
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Updated 02/22/2021 1:44 PM
On May 15, the new WhatsApp Privacy and Conditions policy will come into effect.
Despite the fears of many users,
The company clarified once again that they will not be left without an account if they do not accept it,
but they will lose some of their functions
.
The courier will start to show the message about
The changes that will be made with the new policies, focused on
the data that WhatsApp collects
from users and its treatment, as well as the way in which businesses can use Facebook's hosted services to store and manage their chats.
Users must accept the changes before their entry into force, on May 15, a requirement to be able to continue using WhatsApp fully, but
whose rejection does not mean the loss of the account
, as indicated by the company in the official blog.
However, users will not have "access to all the functions of WhatsApp until they accept them," as he explains.
This means that, for "a short time", they will be able to receive calls and notifications, but
they will not be able to read or send messages
from the application
.
The new privacy policies of the messenger.
The company remembers in its blog that users can accept the new policies "even after May 15", and in this case, it will apply the related policy regarding "inactive users".
It also notes that users can
export chat history and download a report from their account,
or ultimately delete the account.
The company, which in January began to show notifications to users to accept the new terms before February 8 and days later postponed its launch, has ensured that there was "a large number of rumors and misinformation related to this upgrade".
In this message, WhatsApp advised of changes in the service regarding the data that WhatsApp collects from users and its treatment, as well as regarding the way in which businesses can use Facebook's hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats.
In the same message that warned that in order to continue using the messaging service, users had to accept the changes, which generated
criticism from many users of the application
.
WhatsApp defended that the new policy is focused on
new ways of chatting with companies and making purchases
from application conversations, which had already been announced in October of last year and which are "totally optional", according to the technology company.
"Some purchasing functions are integrated with Facebook so that companies can manage their inventories through the applications," WhatsApp explained in the statement.
And they added: "This is indicated directly in WhatsApp so that people can choose if they want to communicate with companies or not."
Users could already use the app to communicate with companies present in WhatsApp Business to chat and purchase products.
"We charge companies (not users) for using WhatsApp to provide that customer service," the company recalled, referring to the fact that its service is still free.
Likewise, the application reiterated that
users'
messages
"will continue to be end-to-end encrypted at all times," an encryption mechanism that makes them only readable by the sender and receiver, "so WhatsApp will never be able to read or listen to them."
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