WhatsApp’s deadline to just accept its new privateness coverage is immediately. Users that fail to just accept this new privateness coverage will slowly begin shedding performance on their WhatsApp.
When WhatsApp first introduced this new privateness coverage, the platform was met with quite a lot of backlashes as individuals moved to different messaging apps like Signal and Telegram. This transfer brought about the choice messaging apps to expertise a surge in downloads.
The new privateness coverage states that WhatsApp will now share its customers’ private info, together with cellphone numbers, IP addresses, contacts, and extra with Facebook from May 15, 2021.
What occurs if you don’t settle for WhatsApp’s new privateness coverage?
If you don’t settle for WhatsApp’s new privateness coverage, you can be consistently reminded to just accept the brand new coverage and for those who nonetheless select to not settle for it, WhatsApp will begin lowering options obtainable to you. Subsequently, you gained’t be capable to entry your chat checklist, however you may nonetheless reply incoming cellphone and video calls. If you may have notifications enabled, you may faucet on them to learn or reply to a message or name again a missed cellphone or video name.
According to an FAQ on WhatsApp, “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. In other words, your WhatsApp account will become completely useless.”
WhatsApp additionally famous that it might not delete accounts of customers who don’t settle for the brand new privateness coverage.
In case you missed it
- WhatsApp introduced earlier this yr that it’s going to begin sharing customers’ private info with Facebook from February 8 however later modified the date to May 15, 2021.
- In an effort to keep up its customers’ belief globally, WhatsApp shared its up to date plans and requested customers to assessment and settle for its up to date phrases and privateness coverage.
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