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The new privacy policy of WhatsApp is expected to effective from May 15 this week. WhatsApp has clarified that no account will be deleted for not accepting the updated policy.
In early January 2021, WhatsApp sent a pop-up notification to all of its users, informing them of their new changes to privacy policy policies. A statement read that WhatsApp is now sharing its user data with its main application Facebook and its WhatsApp headquarters, and many people up to your data condemned the claim that it was a breach of privacy.
As a result, many users looked for alternative messaging applications and kept coming for signals or telegrams.
WhatsApp, which was set to implement its new data-sharing policy from May 15, 2021, said after a delay in response to a user’s response on its website that it would not immediately cut users who would not accept the new words Do, though it will send reminders to those who do not accept the terms.
Describing the WhatsApp spokesperson and rumors as telling the PTI, “No account will be deleted on May 15 due to this update and no one in India will lose the functionality of WhatsApp. We will give people a reminder for the next several weeks. ” An email response to a query on Friday.
For those who do not wish to accept the updated terms of the company, the app will continue to show a notification. After a period of several weeks, users will see a continuous reminder.
At some point, users will face limited functionality on WhatsApp until they accept the update, according to WhatsApp’s FAQ page. “You won’t be able to access your chat list, but you can still answer the incoming phone and video calls After a few weeks of limited functionality, you won’t be able to receive incoming calls or notifications and WhatsApp will stop sending messages and calls to your phone”.
This is one of the latest episodes highlighting concerns over tech giants’ privacy and data protection policies, as a misunderstanding about WhatsApp’s efforts to bring businesses to the platform based on WhatsApp’s privacy policy revealed by Facebook.
