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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Washington – After facing backlash from users over the new privacy policy, the American messaging service WhatsApp has come up with a list of details of changes that a user could face after ignoring its terms by the May 15 deadline.<\/p>\n

According to Tech Crunch, WhatsApp has detailed what will happen to users who won’t agree to new privacy changes through a mail which explains that it will slowly ask such users to comply with the new terms in order to have full functionality of WhatsApp till May 15.<\/p>\n

The Facebook-owned company also added in the note that, “If the user will not accept the terms, for a short time, these users will be able to receive calls and notifications, but will not be able to read or send messages from the app.”<\/p>\n

Tech Crunch reported that the short time of asking users to comply with the norms would span ahead for a few weeks and for the inactive users, its policy will apply after May 15.<\/p>\n

Usually, according to the WhatsApp policy, the accounts of inactive users get deleted automatically after 120 days of inactivity.<\/p>\n

Recently, the instant messaging service received heavy backlash from a portion of its clients, most of which were from its greatest market – India.<\/p>\n

Following this, a month ago after an in-application alert, they notified that the users have February 8 as the last date to consent to the planned security terms, which are being made to mirror its new drive into internet business.<\/p>\n

Tech Crunch quoted, “Since 2016, WhatsApp’s privacy policies have granted the service permission to share with Facebook certain metadata such as user phone numbers and device information.<\/p>\n

The new terms will allow Facebook and WhatsApp to share payment and transaction data in order to help them better target ads as the social juggernaut broadens its e-commerce offerings and looks to merge its messaging platforms.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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