WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Facebook, has changed its user privacy terms and conditions, indicating that it will share user information with its parent company Facebook in February, which has led to user dissatisfaction and boycotts, calling for other communication software such as Signal.
According to the updated privacy policy of WhatsApp, it includes WhatsApp account information, phone number, service-related information, interaction information with other people and companies, and IP location. According to the updated privacy policy of WhatsApp, it includes WhatsApp account information, phone number, service-related information, interaction information with other people and companies, IP location, etc. The original option of “not sharing WhatsApp account information with Facebook” will be removed. The new terms will take effect on February 8, WhatsApp users need to agree to the new terms before the deadline, otherwise they will not be able to continue to use WhatsApp, and their personal accounts may even be deleted.
WhatsApp’s new policies and practices have caused dissatisfaction, and some users have therefore launched a boycott, for example, closing their WhatsApp accounts and switching to other communication software, including tesla CEO Elon Musk, who called for the use of another encrypted communication software Signal on social networking sites.
In response to the unilateral update of WhatsApp’s terms, Arthur Messaud, a lawyer for the French organization “La Quadrature du net”, pointed out that if stopping the use of WhatsApp is the only way to reject the new terms, it is not a change made by mutual consent, and it is not legal to divert users’ personal information in such cases.
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