WhatsApp goes backwards: you can use it even if you refuse the new rules

WhatsApp wants to apply new rules for sharing personal data on May 15. Faced with a categorical refusal from users, the application went back for the first time. But the anger of the users does not decrease. With a week from the deadline, she takes another step towards conciliation.

Before, you used a service. Depending on the needs of the publisher of this service, the rules of use could change unilaterally. Either you accept. Either you go. No half measures. You always had the possibility of turning to consumer associations. But conciliation had little room. Today, with social networks, consumer opinion is no longer taken lightly. You complain about an injustice. And the buzz does the rest.

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The WhatsApp case is a good textbook case. The application was bought in 2014 by Facebook, but promised at the time that the rules on personal data would not change. Then, in 2016, Facebook applied a change in these terms of use, by default authorizing the sharing of information between the various applications of the firm. But until now it was still possible to refuse them.

WhatsApp backs off again on its new rules

In February, Facebook announced that it would no longer be possible to refuse them from May 15 and that any refusal would lead to the deletion of the account. Faced with the outcry of users, WhatsApp has put water in its wine: no account deletion, but an unusable application and a deactivated account. Once again, users are crying out loud.

As the May 15 deadline approaches, WhatsApp is backtracking again to reassure users (and not see them compete). Today, the app released a new message explaining that the accounts would not be finally not deactivated or deleted May 15 if the new T & Cs are not accepted. At least for the first few weeks after May 15th. The app will just display a message simply inviting everyone to accept the new rules.

It’s a communication failure for Facebook

This story of information sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook looks more and more like a failure on the part of the American firm. Communication failure, in particular: there was nothing worse to adopt rules supposed, in the medium term, to represent a source of income. In principle, the user refuses to be forced to accept. And today he can make it known. And fight against. Especially since Apple, at the same time, is doing what it takes to point the finger at the appalling management of personal data at Facebook.

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Source: TheNextWeb