WhatsApp, everything changes from tomorrow: what will happen to the app

From 11 April WhatsApp will change its information to adapt to those in force in Europe, the age limits and the possibility of sending messages to third parties will change

Today, all over the world there are many technologies that allow all of us to have a simpler and smarter life. Obviously, all of these are subject to specific regulations and products already existing on the market must adapt to the new rules. Everyone in the world knows Whatsapp, but few people know that starting tomorrow the Meta application will have to change to comply with the new European regulations. Here's what this change entails.

Whatsapp is a messaging application created in 2009, which became part of the Meta group in 2014. The US platform will have to adapt to new European regulations and starting tomorrow, everything will change for application users. Various changes will have to be made by Meta to adapt to the EU. The objective of the regulations of Digital Service Act and the Digital Markets Actis to promote the competition and the transparency. To achieve this, WhatsApp has updated its Terms of Service and its Privacy Policy.

The first change concerns the introduction of third-party applications. In short, from the next few months it will also be possible to send messages to external applications Whatsapp. A section dedicated to third-party chats will be created in the application which can also be deactivated if the user does not wish to use them. Making this change may take some time. In fact, it will not be WhatsApp that forwards the requests, but the smaller applications.

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Further changes regarding theminimum age to be able to use the application. In the world to use WhatsApp you must be 13 years old, while in the European Union it is 16. Meta has decided to align itself with this legislation by changing the minimum registration age. In the information disclosed by WhatsApp it was underlined that as regards the safety nothing will change. All messages and calls will remain with the cend-to-end encryption. No conversation can be read or listened to by third parties or by WhatsApp. Obviously, all these changes can be accepted or not by the consumer and anyone who wants can easily disable their account.