Recently, technical leaks revealed that the instant messaging application
“WhatsApp” intends to update the “terms of use” in the year 2021, amid
expectations that they will come into effect in February.
According to “Wabetainfo”, pictures of these new conditions were leaked
by employees working on testing them, in the first stage.
In the event that the “WhatsApp” user does not agree to the expected new
terms, he will not be able to use the application.
The sources clarified that once the new terms of use are approved, it will
mean subject to the updated policy, starting from February 8th.
The application did not initiate “WhatsApp” to clarify these changes
but stressed that they will be mandatory for everyone.
A company spokesperson explained that these changes will relate to the way
companies operate on the messaging platform, or how they interact with users.
The talk about these changes comes, while the “WhatsApp” application has faced
many criticisms about its way of working since it was bought by the giant “Facebook”
in 2014 for an amount of nearly $ 19 billion.
In 2018, the company’s founder, Jan Kum, resigned from the CEO position, citing
privacy concerns for users.
And he had written in a blog post on the “Facebook” website that companies know
everything about the user and his friends and what he likes, in order to get ads.
He had said his famous phrase “When there is an advertisement, remember that
the user is the product.”
The founder of “WhatsApp”, at the time, did not specify the reason for his resignation,
but the “Washington Post” newspaper quoted some sources as having entered into a
sharp dispute with Facebook over the collection of personal data and its use for
advertising purposes.
