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The famous messaging application WhatsApp is criticized for asking its 2 billion users to accept new terms of use, which allow it to share more data with its parent company Facebook.
Users who refuse They will no longer be able to access their accounts as of February 8.
On Twitter, many users were alarmed Thursday that they gave their consent without having read the changes in detail.
The group intends to monetize its platform by allowing advertisers to contact their customers through WhatsApp or even sell their products directly in the application, as is already the case in India.
“The update of the confidentiality policies are common in the industry and we are providing users with all the necessary information to verify the changes that will take effect on February 8”said a spokesman for the group.
According to the company, the data that can be shared between WhatsApp and the Facebook application ecosystem (including Instagram and Messenger) includes contacts and profile information, except for the content of messages.
But the new conditions differ between the European Union and the rest of the world. In the case of the EU and the UK, They will only be used to develop the functionalities offered to professional WhatsApp Business accountsthe company explained.
“WhatsApp does not share the data of its users in Europe with Facebook in order for Facebook to use this data to improve its products or advertisements,” the company said.
The National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL), the French internet regulator, recalled that since 2017 an investigation had been initiated into the consequences of the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook for 22,000 million dollars in 2014, including the data transfer conditions .
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