New twist of WhatsApp so that we accept your privacy policy. Affiliate Facebook has revealed what will happen to users who resist the new conditions. WhatsApp will not delete your account, but will essentially render it useless with its measures. If you want to keep the app, you will have no choice but to accept them.
WhatsApp and privacy: no access to chats, no notifications or calls
In an update to the support document found by Gizmodo, WhatsApp clarifies what will happen to our account if we insist on not accept the new terms of use and privacy. For starters, the ad that has been appearing for weeks will become persistent. Thereafter, the following measures will be implemented until we accept the new WhatsApp privacy policy:
- You will not be able to access your mailing list. You can use notifications to read and reply to messages. You can also answer calls.
- After a few weeks like this, you will lose the functionality of receiving messages, calls and notifications. The app will no longer be useful for all purposes.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy is different in the EU and the rest of the world, as it prevents Facebook from collecting this information.
WhatsApp’s new privacy measures They will come into force this Saturday, May 15. Those who have accepted them will not notice any change. But to this day, users who avoid WhatsApp’s new policy will see the ad stick around every time they open the app. And they will start to lose functionality as detailed above.
When WhatsApp announced that it would start collecting all of our data from the app to share with Facebook at the start of the year, there was a general wave of rejection (Telegram was very popular for weeks). The company was forced to postpone its plans for a few months to calm the waters. And this is where we see this notice appear so that we agree to the terms of confidentiality, with increasing emphasis.