WhatsApp retarde la nouvelle politique de confidentialité

WhatsApp a annoncé vendredi le report de trois mois de sa nouvelle politique de confidentialité, qui devait initialement entrer en vigueur le 8 février, à la suite d'une confusion généralisée sur la question de savoir si la nouvelle politique allait être mise en œuvre. imposer le partage des données avec Facebook.

Moreover, the update does not in fact affect data sharing with Facebook with regard to user chats or other profile information. So WhatsApp has repeatedly clarified that its update addresses business chats in the event a user converses with a company’s customer service platform through WhatsApp.

WHATSAPP TENTE DE DISSIPER LA CONFUSION CONCERNANT SES PRATIQUES EN MATIÈRE DE PROTECTION DE LA VIE PRIVÉE

“We’ve heard from so many people how much confusion there is around our recent update.  So there’s been a lot of misinformation causing concern and we want to help everyone understand our principles and the facts,” the company wrote in a nouvel article de blog publié aujourd'hui.

WhatsApp avec Facebook

Depuis 2016, WhatsApp partage certaines informations avec Facebook, notamment votre numéro de téléphone, à moins que vous ne fassiez partie des quelques utilisateurs privilégiés qui... ont choisi de ne pas partager leurs données alors que l'option était encore disponible cette année-là. However, look at people’s chat messages or listen to their phone calls, and WhatsApp conversations are end-to-end encrypted to protect against those abuses.

Malgré cela, une fenêtre contextuelle informant les utilisateurs de ce nouveau changement mentionnait le partenariat entre WhatsApp et Facebook et contenait un ultimatum demandant aux utilisateurs de supprimer leur compte. De plus, s'ils choisissaient de ne pas accepter les nouvelles conditions. Cela donnait l'impression aux utilisateurs qu'ils étaient contraints d'accepter de nouvelles conditions plus invasives.

L'entreprise a publié cette semaine un billet de blog séparé a tenté de dissiper la confusion et a inclus un tableau précisant quelles informations sont protégées et ne sont pas partagées lorsque quelqu'un utilise WhatsApp.

Nous souhaitons répondre à certaines rumeurs et être clairs sur le fait que nous continuons à protéger vos messages privés avec un cryptage de bout en bout. pic.twitter.com/6qDnzQ98MP

- WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) 12 janvier 2021

WhatsApp avec Telegram

However, numerous media reports highlighting the addition of new. Firstly, broad language in the privacy policy (language WhatsApp says has been misconstrued to imply mandated data sharing).  Secondly, misinformation on social media have coalesced into a full-blown WhatsApp privacy backlash. So The result has been a Augmentation du nombre d'inscriptions à des services de messagerie concurrents comme Signal et Télégramme.

Facebook executives includs Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart. So it used Twitter to try to clear up the confusion, it seems with little success. Moreover, Facebook’s poor privacy track record.  However, the fact that WhatsApp has over time turned its sights on monetizing the platform for its large international user base. So it has eroded trust in the chat app, which, in turn, has had the effect of turning a relatively mundane update into a worldwide controversy.

WhatsApp says it’s now going to use this three-month delay to better communicate both the changes in its new policy.  So its long-standing privacy practices around personal chats, location sharing, and other sensitive data. Moreover, “We’re now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms,” the blog post reads.

“THIS UPDATE DOES NOT EXPAND OUR ABILITY TO SHARE DATA WITH FACEBOOK.”

So WhatsApp says no one will be losing access to the app if they didn’t agree to the new terms of service agreement. However, it was  communicated the changes earlier this month. So “We’re also going to do a lot more to clear up the misinformation around how privacy and security works on WhatsApp. Moreover, we’ll then go to people gradually to review the policy at their own pace before new business options are available on May 15,”.

WhatsApp dit The Verge the policy won’t be changing when it does come out. The intent of the update is communicating to users that messages with businesses on WhatsApp may be stored on Facebook servers. So this necessitates data sharing between the two companies (that data, WhatsApp says, can be used for businesses for the purpose of advertising). However, Facebook does not share it across its apps automatically). WhatsApp still intends to release the update on May 15th to coincide with new business chat features it a commencé à être présentée en avant-première en octobre.

But the company hopes the extra time will help it get a handle on the controversy and better improve its messaging around what’s actually changing.

Nouvelle politique de confidentialité de WhatsApp

“The update includes new options people will have to message a business sur WhatsApp, and provides further transparency about how we collect and use data. While not everyone shops with a business on WhatsApp today. So we think that more people will choose to do so in the future and it’s important people are aware of these services. ” The blog post reads. “This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook.”

Mise à jour du 15 janvier, 15h26 ET : Clarified how WhatsApp’s new privacy policy will treat data collected during chats with businesses as part of the upcoming privacy policy change, now going into effect on May 15th.