WhatsApp What are we accepting in the new conditions?

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Surely when you have logged into WhatsApp, a new screen has appeared showing the new conditions of this social network. Conditions that you must accept if you want to access your chats. If it has not happened to you yet, do not worry because it will appear in the next few days, since these conditions must be accepted before February 8.

Our actions on our phones are so automatic that we tend to accept everything without stopping to read the conditions. But what are we really accepting?

WhatsApp's new terms and conditions

Information from ourselves and our contacts

“In order to operate and provide our Services, you grant WhatsApp a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display and perform the information (including content) you upload, submit, store, send or receive through our Services.” In short, by agreeing to WhatsApp’s new terms, you agree to the transfer of your data to Facebook .

According to the terms, this information will be used to “ operate and provide our services , such as support, completing purchases or transactions, improving, correcting, and personalizing our services , and connecting them with Facebook Company Products .”

This means the full integration of WhatsApp into Mark Zuckerberg's platform, which will have access to all your data. And when we say all... we mean all. Facebook will be able to access all the content you Lebanon telegram data show on WhatsApp except for conversations , which are end-to-end encrypted so that only the sender and receiver of the message can access them. But it will be able to access our phone number, username, profile photo, any additional information we include in our description, and the information from the statuses we decide to upload.

With this data, the social network can generate a very detailed profile of each user. But it will not only obtain our data, but also that of third parties, that is, our contacts. It will be able to access all the telephone numbers and data from our address book such as date of birth, place of residence or where we work. In the same way, it will be able to obtain this information about us through our contacts.

Messages

As we have mentioned before, according to the App, the conversations are encrypted, so no one outside of them can access them. Although they assure that they do not regularly store our messages on their servers, they do so when a message cannot be delivered or a multimedia file is resent . If the message has not been able to be delivered, the app stores it for 30 days until it can be sent. In the case of a multimedia file, it stores the message in an encrypted manner to control additional resending.

Our location

It is no news that, if we have the location activated on our mobile device, any application with access to this tool can know at any time where we are. But if you are a person jealous of your privacy and only activate the location when you use the GPS, we will tell you that the App can obtain other types of information with which to obtain your location. By this we refer to the IP address or the area codes of our mobile phone. Although it cannot know the exact location, it will be able to know in which country or city you are.

Advertising on WhatsApp?

Recently, the instant messaging app announced that it would start showing advertisements. Initially, they would be displayed through WhatsApp statuses. Now, everything makes sense, as these conditions allow the app to access more information to display personalized ads. In addition, WhatsApp will allow you to make purchases directly from the chat, which is why the conditions state that “ it may collect and share our data with any company that belongs to Facebook.”

Migration to Telegram

After learning about WhatsApp's new conditions, many users have decided to change the application to communicate with their contacts. This is why Telegram has seen an increase in users in the last few hours.

In their terms and conditions, they state that “there is no possibility of commercial use, advertising, or analytics companies .” It is true that they store data such as: phone number, profile photo, name, contact list and conversations (except for secret chats), files sent, connection times, or device data.