The WhatsApp messenger, which is owned by Facebook, began to notify its users (which is about 2 billion) about the update of the privacy policy. Do you want to keep using the popular messaging app?
On 18 January we conducted an interview with a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India Vijayashankar Na (Mr. Naavi) and he shared with us his opinion on the new privacy policy of WhatsApp messenger and how it impacts the users.
Please introduce yourself to our readers.
I'm the chairman of a foundation of data protection professionals in India, which is the primary organization in India working on data protection, providing certifications, audit, support and so on. Since 1998 I was working on cyber law issues which was based on our law called the information technology act. Moreover, I'm the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. Now we have extended it to data protection.
On January 4, WhatsApp announced that from February 8, all users of the messenger (except for residents of the EU and the UK) will be forced to share their personal data with Facebook — the social network will have access to phone numbers, transaction information and IP addresses. What has changed?
Actually, compared to what happened before, there may not be significant changes. We know that WhatsApp has been acquired by Facebook, but we are not very sure whether the information from WhatsApp was being shared with Facebook. But I believe it was happening in the background which we do not know. But maybe now, because they don't want to take any chances wi ..
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