Facebook's globally popular social platform WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy. Users have already been notified that the platform will now share their personal data with other Facebook companies.
For many, the change may come as an unpleasant surprise, as the company that runs WhatsApp assured users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014 that it aimed to know "as little as possible" about them.
The change will take effect from February 8 and the user will have to agree to it if they want to continue using the app. If he does not want his data to be handled by Facebook and its other companies, the only solution is to uninstall the app and stop using the service.
Informace, which WhatsApp collects and will share about users includes, for example, location data, IP addresses, phone model, battery level, operating system, mobile network, signal strength, language or IMEI (International Phone Identification Number). In addition, the application knows how the user calls and writes messages, what groups he visits, when he was last online, and also knows his profile photo.
The change will not apply to everyone – thanks to stricter legislation on the protection of user data, known as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), it will not apply to users in the European Union.
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