Whatapp, an American freeware cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Facebook. On an approx. there are 2 billion Whatsapp users in the world as stated by Whatsapp MAUs in February 2020. Almost every smartphone owner uses Whatsapp.
On the 4th of January, Whatsapp updated its new privacy policies, which every Whatsapp user has to accept till the 8th of February otherwise its account will be deleted. The new policies will start working after the 8th of February. These policies raised too many queries and rumors among users. Many users are shifting from Whatsapp to other platforms because they feel their privacy unsafe. But many of them leave it without complete knowledge.
Here in this article, I will answer all questions and clarify all the doubts relating to the new privacy policy of Whatsapp...
Popular questions that are frequently asked...
- What type of information WhatsApp will share with Facebook about me and my account?
Ans- Whatsapp shares a lot of intel with Facebook, including account information like your phone number, logs of how long and how often you use Whatsapp, information about how you interact with other users, device identifiers, and other device details like IP address, operating system, browser, etc.
- What Whatsapp will do with my information?
Ans - Whatsapp shares your information with Facebook to improve their services and offerings, like fighting spam across apps, making product suggestions, and showing relevant offers and ads on Facebook, as stated by Whatsapp in its privacy policy.
- Will Whatsapp access my chats, photos, and media and use them to advertise on Facebook?
Ans - No, your messages are yours. Your chats are still end-to-end encrypted, which means no third party including Whatsapp can read them except sender and receiver. Whatsapp stated in its privacy policy that once your messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice messages, files, and share location information) are delivered, they are deleted from its servers. Your messages are stored on your own device. If a message can't be delivered immediately (for example, if you are offline), they may keep it on their servers for 30 days as they try to deliver it, after 30 days it is deleted.
- Will Whatsapp start showing ads?
Ans - No, Whatsapp stated in its privacy policy that "No third-party banner ads. We do not allow third-party banner ads on Whatsapp. We have no intention to introduce them, but if we ever do so, we will update this policy.
- Is it compulsory to update Whatsapp and accept new policies of Whatsapp?
Ans - Yes, if you will not update your Whatsapp by the 8th of February then your account will be deleted. But in case you don't like the new policies of Whatsapp and don't want to use it anymore then you can switch to another platform.
- Does Whatsapp use cookies?
Ans - Yes, Whatsapp uses cookies to operate and provide our services. Like Whatsapp use cookies to provide Whatsapp for web and desktop. Whatsapp uses cookies to understand which FAQs are most popular, which should be shown to you. They use cookies to remember your choices, such as your language preferences, etc.
- What are the platforms that can be used in place of Whatsapp?
Ans - If you find a threat to your privacy in new Whatsapp policies and going to delete it. Then there are a lot of other choices which are similar to Whatsapp and secure too, like Signal, Telegram, etc. A lot of people are switching to these platforms. But personally, I am not going to switch. Tell me, in the comment section are you going to switch Whatsapp.
I had answered all the common questions, but if you yet have then you can ask me in the comment section...
Questions...
- What type of information WhatsApp will share with Facebook about me and my account?
- What Whatsapp will do with my information?
- Will Whatsapp access my chats, photos, and media and use them to advertise on Facebook?
- Will Whatsapp start showing ads?
- Is it compulsory to update Whatsapp and accept new policies of Whatsapp?
- Does Whatsapp use cookies?
- What are the platforms that can be used in place of Whatsapp?
Thank you
by Dhruv Mishra
