Whatsapp policy

                    

User accounts that have not agreed to a change in Messenger's privacy policy will not be deleted on February 8.

Signal increased by 4200% after change in WhatsApp policy and Telegram moved to second place in US.

As Business Insider writes, market research firm for Signal was citing data from Sensor Tower, and India was the largest growth market for Telegram. Signal saw 2.3 million downloads, more than 30% of total new downloads in India. India has 1.5 million telegram downloads or 16% of the total.

WhatsApp has announced an amendment to the entry date for the new privacy policy. This is stated in the blog of Messenger.

Telegram was the second most downloaded app in the US. American users have downloaded it more than half a million times. In addition to WhatsApp's policy changes, the app's growing popularity was also affected, with upstream and Google Play Was affected by the blocking of the parlor messenger associated with Donald Trump's supporters.

                                             Why are people going to other messengers?

It is hard to say for sure. Perhaps users of some media outlets consider innovation as follows:

• Users are now required to allow WhatsApp to share the data collected about them with a Facebook company owned by this messenger;

• However before that they had an option and could prevent the transfer of their data to Facebook;

• Lucky people who were generally spared by this cuss - they are residents of Europe.

“We are postponing the date when people will be asked to see and accept the conditions. No one will be blocked or removed on February 8, ”WhatsApp said.

                                            What kind of exception is there for Europeans?

Everything is complicated with that. WhatsApp collects exactly the same information about its users from the "European Region" and can also share user data with Facebook. What's more, they also receive notifications inviting them to accept the updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. True, they are slightly different, as they have been compiled keeping in mind the requirements of the European Data Protection Regulation - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Apparently, this gave rise to the idea of ​​"exclusion".

The company noted that after the announcement of changes to the confidentiality agreement on the Internet, there was much misinformation about it.

Earlier, on 8 January, WhatsApp added a clause to the user agreement, according to which the personal data of Messenger users is made available to the entire family of applications from Facebook. The user was asked to confirm the new agreement by 8 February.

"We want to dispel some rumors. We continue to protect your private messages with end-to-end encryption. We want to make it clear that updating this policy is in any way for friends or family Does not affect the confidentiality of your communication with us. We update on the WhatsApp website that this update provides additional transparency on how we collect and use data.

                                        What information does WhatsApp collect about me?

Different from all. for example:

• Metadata of your messages and calls: communicate with whom, when, how often

• Your phone number and the phone number of your interlocutors

• Used data about the device or browser

• IP address and information about your mobile network

• Your location data

• Billing Information

Later, the head of the messenger Will Cathart stated that the changes did not affect privacy. According to him, neither WhatsApp nor Facebook, which owns it, can see their users' private correspondence and their calls. “Thanks to end-to-end encryption, we cannot see your private messages or calls like Facebook. We are committed to this technology and committed to protecting it globally.

Against this backdrop, Telegram Messenger founder Pavel Durov said that the change in WhatsApp's privacy policy had a positive impact on the growth of the number of Telegram users. In addition, Durov also stated that American messengers used paid bots to spread biased information about telegrams on social networks.

The Verge also reported that WhatsApp users are leaving a large number of platforms, switching to Signal Messenger. Signal Messenger was published by former WhatsApp former co-founder, Brian Acton, who publicly criticized his former employer's privacy policy.

WhatsApp has previously exchanged some data with Facebook, WSJ Notes. We are talking about the phone number and information about when the user was last logged into Messenger. Former US Federal Trade Commission chief technologist Ashokan Saltani said that many users did not understand that the messenger belonged to Facebook (the company acquired it in 2014 for $ 19 billion).

The new changes are in line with Facebook's ambitious goal of providing a more consistent user experience across all services. While these changes will help deliver better services, they can also prevent many privacy concerns for processed data.

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