WhatsApp is presenting in-app alert to accept Terms of Service again
WhatsApp is a very popular messaging and calling application worldwide. The major and position strengthening factor of any application are user’s privacy and data security.
In this equation, it’s less than a month, when WhatsApp changes its terms and privacy policy for all WhatsApp users for users.
According to WABetaInfo, recently, WhatsApp has started popping up a new in-app alert about the previous changes in terms of services for those who haven’t accepted them yet, for iOS and Android.
Here’s the question that arrives in the user’s mind are:
- Will our messages with friends and family be shared with Facebook or any other company?
- Will our messages with business accounts be shared with Facebook or any other company
- If the changes are for business accounts, why do we have to accept the terms? Business accounts should accept them.
Answer’s of your questions:
Q1. Will our messages with friends and family be shared with Facebook or any other company?
Messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted: it means that WhatsApp and Facebook cannot see their content. They aren’t shared with WhatsApp or Facebook and only the recipient(s) can see or listen to them.
Q2. Will our messages with business accounts be shared with Facebook or any other company?
Business accounts can use solution providers, a set of tools used to store and manage our chat with them. These tools help businesses to reply to your messages effectively. Businesses have their own privacy policy that might indicate your chat with them to be shared with Facebook, in order to generate targeted advertisements.
This is a particular type of business account (usually with a high verification level) and when a business uses cloud providers to manage and store your WhatsApp chat, it’s marked in the app. Messages shared with business accounts that don’t use cloud providers (or if they have good privacy practices) aren’t used to generate targeted advertisements.
Q3. If the changes are for business accounts, why do we have to accept the terms? Business accounts should accept them.
Everyone has to accept the new Terms of Service because standard WhatsApp accounts can interact with businesses.
Also, check:
WhatsApp working on a new option to set the disappearing messages to 24 hours
