Change, essentially cosmetic, does not relate to how the data is processed by the courier service.
Le Monde
Monday, November 22, the WhatsApp’s users will receive a message informing them that the conditions of use of messaging, property of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), have been put to day.
“We know that privacy is a priority for our users, and we want to be very clear: this update does not change the way we operate, and nothing changes in the way we use your data Or with whom we share them, including Meta. “
In September, the Irish Data Protection Commission, CPD, competent for the European Union as a whole, had sanctioned whatsapp of a record fine of 225 million euros, considering that the conditions of use of The messaging was not clear enough or detailed. The company had until Monday, November 22 to complete and update the texts that explain to its users what use is made of their data.
The new text, much longer than the previous one, now details all the collected data, and the conditions in which they can be transmitted. A long table identifies the circumstances in which some information can be collected, whether when sending a message or during security checks.
WhatsApp has called
WhatsApp appealed the decision of the Irish regulator. “We disagree with [the decision of the Irish regulator] and we appealed because we believe that we already provide all the information necessary for our users”, announces the company in a communiqué transmitted to the world. “Wherever you are in the world, we protect your personal messages with end-to-end encryption, which means that no one, not even WhatsApp, can not read or listen to them,” she says.
In relation to many services, including other social networking platforms, WhatsApp collects little information about its users: In addition to the phone number, the contact list, the profile picture and an approximate geolocation, the messaging mainly records the exchange metadata (their time, the numbers of the participants to a discussion), but not their contents, which is encrypted by default.
This update of the terms of use occurs a little less than one year after a change in the rules of use that had been very poorly received by a significant portion of the users of the application. A rather technical update of the rules, described in a threatening manner by first messages that announced that users refusing them soon could no longer use the application, then caused an important protest movement and an exodus of some users to other messaging.