Your WhatsApp account blocked if you don’t submit!
A small discount in the context is necessary. In December 2020, we learned that WhatsApp is preparing to modify these terms of use accordingly. We were the first to tell you about it, and we were already worried when it was not yet official. To summarize, WhatsApp wants to review the way it handles the data of its users.
Indeed, the messaging service will now transfer some personal data about you to its parent company: Facebook. The icing on the cake, you must accept these new rules, otherwise your account will be blocked. The announcement creates an unprecedented outcry, and users are migrating by the hundreds of thousands to competitors like Signal or Telegram.
To stop the bleeding, WhatsApp takes the floor and announces that French and European users are not affected by this measure under the GDPR. However, the situation remains unclear and we feel that WhatsApp does not say everything. In the process, the service postpones the implementation of these new terms of use until May 15, 2021. In the meantime, WhatsApp FINALLY details what it shares with Facebook: it is mainly data relating to your exchanges with companies on WhatsApp. This information will be used to improve Facebook’s targeted advertising system.
Facebook and WhatsApp to put their plan into action
And while we thought that Facebook was going to end this obligation to accept these terms of use, the social network and WhatsApp do intend to impose this new legislation. Thus and from May 15, 2021, users who have not complied with this clause will be deprived of certain features at first, before seeing their account totally blocked.
” For a short time, these users will be able to receive calls and notifications, but will not be able to read or send messages from the app ”, WhatsApp confirms in an email sent to its business partners and relayed by our colleagues on the TechCrunch site. You understand the maneuver, WhatsApp simply wants to prevent you from reading or responding to your messages in order to motivate you to accept its new terms of use..
In this situation, we would like to remind you that Signal messaging is a very good alternative to WhatsApp and that in the same vein, ProtonMail offers an encrypted mailbox. This service based in Switzerland is also at the origin of ProtonVPN, a serious and ultra-secure service for 8 € / month.
Source: Phonandroid
