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Ankara – After Whatsapp’s announcement of new terms of use, there is a worldwide rush to alternative messenger services such as Signal and Threema.
On Saturday evening, the Turkish presidential office also changed to the local service BIPMobil known.
New terms of use for Whatsapp
Whatsapp has been asking users for a few days to agree to the new terms and conditions.
Whatsapp will therefore exchange personal data with Facebook in the future. This included phone numbers and information about how users interact with others. So far this could be deactivated. Anyone who does not agree to the new terms of use will be locked out of their Whatsapp account in February.
For people in the European Union, however, the changes are not that serious.
In fact, Whatsapp only adds information about the legal basis on which it processes data and revises some passages on communication with companies. In the EU, citizens are protected from this by the GDPR.
For this the Southgerman newspaper:
The confusion arose because Whatsapp provides different versions of its terms of use and privacy policy: one for the European region and one for people in the rest of the world – the latter also being available in German, which increases the risk of confusion.
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