WhatsApp Updates Privacy Policy To Share More Data With Facebook

You might have gotten a recent notification on your WhatsApp updates where you were requested to accept a new set of terms and conditions.

WhatsApp Updates Privacy Policy To Share More Data With Facebook
WhatsApp Updates Privacy Policy To Share More Data With Facebook

You might have gotten a recent notification on your WhatsApp updates where you were requested to accept a new set of terms and conditions. If that is the case, then you might want to know that Facebook the parent company of WhatsApp aims to enhance the business usage of data amongst companies. So, Facebook will now be able to access business conversation made within the group. If you do not accept the updated privacy policy which will be coming into force in February, you won™t be able to access the chats on the messaging platform.

Those who criticize the move have talked about how the updated privacy policy will allow the company to complete incentivize and monetize data shared privately within customers and users of WhatsApp without their consent whatsoever. They will also be able to share this data with other business and third providers and perform transactions on these particular platforms.

The policy itself requires users to share transaction data, information, IP address and data on how they can interact with businesses via owned platforms. Currently, populations like India has one of the largest userbases for WhatsApp and Facebook both amongst any other country with numbers reaching in the millions which is quite staggering.

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This newest terms privacy and policy update is not something that was not anticipated by the social media giants as Facebook was trying to find a way to monetize the platform since a really long time. This string of monetization of all of these platforms in terms of user data brings into light the importance of data and how people have grown naïve to the platform™s breaches of privacy and how people are agreeing to such abhorrent acts of data theft.

WhatsApp aims to institutionalize data privacy and is aiming to bend the laws in which people can understand it. With introducing such a large change in act that is extremely simplistic like a simple terms and conditions update, it aims to reduce the amount of coverage the act of data privacy and theft gives.