WhatsApp displays a notice to all users according to must agree to the new privacy conditions. These conditions are linked to a change in the amount of data that WhatsApp shares with Facebook. And they affect non-European app users.
As always with the changes in WhatsApp which concern privacy, the new notice appearing in the mobile application of all users is raising both expectations and controversy. If you opened WhatsApp today you also missed this notice, a change in the privacy conditions that you must accept to continue using the application. This change concerns the way WhatsApp and Facebook share data outside of Europe.
‘WhatsApp will update its terms and privacy policy’
Notice of new privacy terms pops up around the world As we said, the majority of WhatsApp users encounter an alert as soon as the app starts. As has happened on previous occasions, this alert report changes to the terms of use, some changes that require the company to request user permission. In principle, the alert should not appear to European users since the change in privacy conditions does not affect them, but the point is that it appears on all phones.
WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy for users outside of the European Union (for those of us who live in this territory there has also been an update, but the relationship with Facebook remains the same. ). In these words, a greater collaboration with Facebook group companies: WhatsApp will share a lot more user data with these companies. Given the importance of this data, everyone who uses the app has received a notice that they must expressly agree to the new terms. They can refuse, but must agree to it before the privacy terms go into effect on February 8, 2021
Although European citizens also receive a notice of changes to the privacy conditions, this does not mean that we will share more data with Facebook since we are covered by the data protection regulations of the GDPR. European WhatsApp users do not share app data with Facebook or any of its companies to improve the platform, neither now nor in the future. At least, that’s what the GDPR guarantees.
That a European citizen accepts the notification of the new privacy conditions does not mean anything: WhatsApp cannot share user data with Facebook to improve the platform as this is prevented by the GDPR
The review that is currently skipping on WhatsApp can be rejected, but said rejection will only be temporary. In any case, the fact that a European citizen accepts this does not imply that he gives WhatsApp the express permission to share data from is strictly prohibited by the GDPR. In that sense, it doesn’t matter if it’s accepted now because permission is given later. Of course, you will surely have to accept it sooner or later because WhatsApp will keep showing it until it is approved. And as of February 8, 2021 could block the accounts of those who do not accept the notice.
