New ‘WhatsApp’ Policy is Shocking

World Wide every WhatsApp users received a notice, saying that the service will now be sharing the user data with Facebook companies.

Though for now users can opt-out now but starting from Feb 8, 2021, is the deadline for users to make a choice which is either accept or find an alternative.

To give an overview of the New Policy WhatsApp will be collecting and Sharing attributes like location data, IP addresses, phone model, OS, battery level, signal strength, browser, ISP Language, time zone even IMEI, and even the group’s you are messaging, calling, the profile photo, the last time that you were online, your profile description.

WhatsApp added their Payment feature recently now the new Privacy Policy will gather information about all the transactions. The company claims this is for analytics purposes, although we all know that would provide its unique identifiers to other Facebook.

The new policy states that even if a particular user does not use their location features, they collect IP Addresses and other information like Phone number, area codes to get your general location

European Union received only one bullet point in their notification, thanks to their strict privacy legislation better known as GDPR, the WhatsApp users in 27 European countries don’t need to worry about their data being shared with third parties.