WhatsApp to Begin <br />Switching off Messages, For Users Who Reject New Terms.<br />Users have until May 15 to accept the <br />new terms of the popular messaging app. .<br />Otherwise, their accounts will <br />be listed as "inactive.".<br />According to TechCrunch, the app will <br />continue to allow both notifications <br />and calls for a "few weeks.".<br />"Inactive" accounts can <br />be deleted after 120 days.<br />Users have concerns that the new terms, issued <br />in January, will expand the amount of data the app <br />shares with Facebook, its parent company.<br />WhatsApp states that the new terms <br />have nothing to do with Facebook. <br />They allow for making payments to businesses.<br />WhatsApp currently shares IP addresses <br />with Facebook, as well as information <br />about purchases made through the platform.
