Way of WhatsApp: You should pay attention to the messenger change

WhatsApp has not done a favor with its changed Terms of Use. Months after the first announcements there are still many users who return their back to the messenger. What it matters is to be considered, the consumer protectors from North Rhine-Westphalia reveal.

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Change from WhatsApp: Users should pay attention to this

WhatsApp has given new data protection rules and terms of use. Whoever does not agree, but currently only has to live with a long-term annoying pop-up window, which should move for consent. Even if the WhatsApp account is not deleted, many users and users have been looking for alternatives since the plans. The consumer center of North Rhine-Westphalia helps with indications that can be helpful in change to another Messenger (Source: Consumer Center NRW).

According to the consumer center, it is one of the central questions in which country the servers of the respective messenger are operated. While WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype and Telegram operate their servers worldwide, signal the user data in the US. With Ginlo, there is only one Messenger, according to the operators exclusively on Server in Germany . At the paid threema, servers are in Switzerland and the EU.

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Chargeable users should also ask alternatives to ask which data the messenger queries. For example, only with Skype, Threema and Wire, the own mobile number must not be specified.

It is critical in view of the consumer center North Rhine-Westphalia if a messenger would like to access the address book of the telephone . Thus, not only the own contact information, but also those of friends and relatives are provided to the messenger. At WhatsApp and Telegram, no new chats can be started when accessing the address book is denied.

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End-to-end encryption: The differences of the messenger

The encryption is an important topic. Some messengers now have an end-to-end encryption. Such encryption can be found at WhatsApp, Threema, Signal and Ginlo, and Wire. At Telegram, on the other hand, it must first be activated by the user and is not available in group chats. The Facebook Messenger and Skype also work according to the same principle.