WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook, and the terms changed again. I would say
the data they collect is still minimal for providing the service, but it
does include your real phone number and your addressbook content as far as
your contacts have WhatsApp accounts, or (as far as I understand) have
their phone numbers linked to their Facebook accounts.
The fact that they have the phone numbers of your friends is, I guess,
similar to Gmail having the email addresses of your friends.
One part that's definitely "minimal" about the data WhatsApp collects and
logs, is that they encrypt the chat message contents.
I created a new case for this in the 'personal-data' topic:
{ name: 'a minimal amount of personal data is collected', point:
'good', score: 60 }
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 11:35:16 PM UTC+2, Jorge Morell Ramos wrote:
>
> El jueves, 16 de agosto de 2012 00:10:01 UTC+2, Erik Albers escribió:
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> > ToS of WhatsApp @ http://www.whatsapp.com/legal/ reads:
> >
> > "WhatsApp may periodically access your contact list and/or address
> >
> > book on your mobile device to find and keep track of mobile phone
> >
> > numbers of other users of the Service. When providing your mobile
> >
> > phone number, you must provide accurate and complete information. You
> >
> > hereby give your express consent to WhatsApp to access your contact
> >
> > list and/or address book for mobile phone numbers in order to provide
> >
> > and use the Service."
> >
> > that means that they access your address book to offer their service,
> >
> > which is generally a bad thing, having a service that looks for your
> >
> > address book. but they need their numbers to run a instant-messaging
> >
> > system in that you see who is available, who not and so on.
> >
> >
> >
> > An it reads on:
> >
> > "We do not collect names, addresses or email addresses, just mobile
> >
> > phone numbers."
> >
> > And that is true - I am trying it on my own now and you just need any
> >
> > generic username and your phone number. no more data for registration.
> >
> > I think this is a good thing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
> >
> > - --
> >
> > Erik Albers | Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
> >
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> >
> > Free as in Freedom!
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> WhatsApp changed recently its TOS, the say they did it the 7th of July but
> it wsd 11 days later). Anyway, I analyzed the changes on my site (in
> Spanish)
> http://terminosycondiciones.es/2012/07/21/whatsapp-actualiza-sus-condiciones-de-uso-y-politica-de-privacidad/#more-364
>
>
> Now they specify way more the kind of info that they collect. The phone
> number is the important one, but not the only one. All around the text they
> say that they collect:
>
> - push notification name (if applicable),
> - billing information (if applicable)
> - mobile device information when choosing to participate in various uses
> of the service
> - time and date stamps of a message
> - the mobile phone numbers the messages were sent from and to
> - The "Last seen..." info
> - "Files that are sent through the WhatsApp Service will reside on our
> servers after delivery for a short period of time, but are deleted and
> stripped of any identifiable information within a short period of time in
> accordance with our general retention policies".
>
> About this one, they don't specify the period of time or the their
> retention policies.
>
> - A few more
>
> So I'm not sure if I would say that they have a minimal data census.
>
> Regards, Jorge.
>
>
>
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