WhatsApp's Updated Privacy Policy Raises Many Concerns: A long expected move
By MYBRANDBOOK
When you try use WhatsApp for sending any message to anyone, it will ask you to agree to the app’s renewed terms of service and privacy policy. And like the majority of us, you simply opted for ‘Agree’ without reading those fine-lettered words.
WhatsApp wants you to agree to share your user-data with Facebook as part of its updated terms of service and privacy policy, which if you don’t, you cannot continue using the Facebook-owned messaging platform post 8th February 2021. An expert asks, if whatsapp really cares must have offerred a private paid service. Intentions were dubious to say the least.
| SIGNAL | TELEGRAM | FACEBOOK MESSENGER | |
| The only personal data Signal stores is your phone number | Device ID | Contact Info | Purchase History |
| User ID | Contacts | Other Financial Info | |
| Advertising Data | User ID | Precise Location | |
| Purchase History | Coarse Location | ||
| Coarse Location | Physical Address | ||
| Phone Number | Email Address | ||
| Email Address | Name | ||
| Contacts | Phone Number | ||
| Product Interaction | Other User Contact Info | ||
| Crash Data | Contacts | ||
| Performance Data | Photos or Videos | ||
| Other Diagnostic Data | Gameplay Content | ||
| Payment Info | Other User Content | ||
| Customer Support | Search History | ||
| Product Interaction | Browsing History | ||
| Other User Content | User ID | ||
| Device ID | |||
| Product Interaction | |||
| Advertising Data | |||
| Other Usage Data | |||
| Crash Data | |||
| Performance Data | |||
| Other Diagnostic Data | |||
| Other Data Types | |||
| Browsing History | |||
| Health | |||
| Fitness | |||
| Payment Info | |||
| Photos or Videos | |||
| Audio Data | |||
| Gameplay Content | |||
| Customer Support | |||
| Other User Content | |||
| Search History | |||
| Sensitive Info | |||
| iMessage | |||
| Email address | |||
| Phone number Search history | |||
| Device ID |
It first informed its Android and iPhone users about this upcoming change on Tuesday via an in-app pop-up wherein they were given an option to agree to the update directly. Now a hot discussion comes in the tech circle, on how WhatsApp collects and handles users’ data, the updated terms of service and privacy policy also included new sections such as Transactions, Payment Data and Location Information. The messaging giant included specific information about how business interactions are taking place via its platform.
Another expert says, in India, we don’t value our privacy. What matters to us is the free product. And we all know when we get a product for free, we are the product ourselves. But we are least bothered. We will better trade our data to save our money. Whatsapp should have been politically correct by saying we steal your data as everyone else is doing. Now that is not going down good with Indians. We love our ego, if not our privacy.
WhatsApp said to continue an end-to-end encrypted chat app which means one cannot access a user’s messages or share it with someone else. But, with the new policy update coming into effect, there is a chance that the app increasingly relies on its parent company’s products to handle user data.
The facebook’s messaging app’s new terms of service and privacy policy note that the information they will share with other Facebook Companies will include users’ account registration information, i.e phone number, transaction data, service-related information, device information, IP address and in addition to these, may also include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section in the section titled: Information we collect or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent.
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