New York, United States.
The use of WhatsApp messages has decided this Friday to postpone the update of its privacy policy, scheduled for February 8, to avoid the “confusion” about the use of data with Facebook, the parent company, and its new options aimed at selling products.
Updating it Privacy Policy has aroused many doubts and misinformation as to whether it meant access through Facebook to personal data, contacts or about the conversations that are being made WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging application in the world.
It also raised doubts about whether or not to accept it new terms of use, the user would lose their account and the app would disappear from their phone.
“We’re going to postpone the date when people will be asked to review and accept the terms. No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8. We’re also going to do more to clean up misinformation about how privacy and security work WhatsAppthe company said in a statement.
Facebook and its popular messaging subsidiary have tried several times to deny that with the new regulations they will be able to access the content of messages or calls, as well as lists of contacts or groups or the shared geolocation.
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In this Friday’s statement, WhatsApp assured that “this update does not expand its capacity” to “share data with Facebook“and promised to explain the new usage policy without haste” before business options are available on May 15th. “
Several outlets have reported that the new privacy terms will contain more open language, which has sparked speculation Facebook gains access to data from WhatsApp, while the company has insisted that everything fulfills a greater role and functionality to communicate with companies and make purchases.
“Although people don’t use WhatsApp In order to buy from companies today, we believe that more people will choose to do so in the future and it is important that the world is aware of these services, ”the statement said.
The messaging app, with about 2 billion users, fears a massive exodus to Telegram and signal, who have positioned themselves as the most diligent when it comes to collecting and using their users’ metadata, despite the fact that WhatsApp it also encrypts conversations.
Many groups have used confusion about this WhatsApp to spread disinformation about the use of private data by Facebook, which has also been widely criticized in the United States by groups of all kinds, first for not mastering the language of white supremacist groups and later for prohibiting entry.