If you do not accept the new rules for WhatsApp, which in some countries stipulate that certain data be shared with Facebook, jobs will be lost over time.
The main message exchange service, which has more than 2 billion users worldwide, has since Saturday had new terms of use and a new privacy policy that provides, in some cases, the sharing of data with Facebook, the parent company, which can now use it for commercial purposes. Thanks to European data protection laws, users residing in the European Union (EU) are not covered. But anyone who refuses to accept the new terms of service – and this is where the European Union is included, and Portugal by nature – will lose access to the app over time, although the accounts will still be there.
If you’ve been to WhatsApp in the past few weeks, you might have come across a screen asking you to accept the new terms. If you haven’t already done so by this Saturday, the reminder will become permanent, resulting in you being unable to access some functions. Thus, until you accept the new rules, you will not be able to access the chat list, but you can, however, continue to answer voice and video calls, and if you have active notifications, read and respond to messages or missed calls. But after “a few weeks”, The company informed in a statementYou will no longer receive calls, messages, and notifications.
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Changes to the terms and privacy policy were first announced in October and quickly caused controversy, especially in Brazil, one of the countries in the world with the largest number of WhatsApp users, which has managed to have another 90 days, starting today, to accept the rules.
In practical terms, this update “does not affect the way people specifically communicate with their friends and family anywhere in the world,” the company said in January. But end-to-end encryption (a security feature that ensures that only the sender and recipient can access the content of messages) exists only in communications between individual accounts. In the case of messages with commercial accounts (such as those from stores offering WhatsApp), privacy is not guaranteed because the middlemen are involved in passing the message on to the final companies.
“The user needs to understand that when speaking to a company, they don’t have a direct relationship with the company, there is a middleman, it could be Facebook – and being Facebook, it is clear that WhatsApp will share data with the social network as a service provider,” he explained.
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