Actually, it now says "We may provide you marketing for our Services and those of the Facebook family of companies <https://www.facebook.com/help/111814505650678>, of which we are now a part."
I'll remove this point in favour of https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tosdr/8SIqO9sG24g On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Michiel de Jong <[email protected]> wrote: > It's one of those typical double-edged swords of social network services: > On the one hand, giving your real phone number to WhatsApp is what allows > your friends (who have that phone number of yours stored in their phone) to > trust that it's really you, and this is one of the main key features that > makes WhatsApp such a big success among its users. > On the other hand, the fact that they have everybody's real phone number > is also a big reason behind the ridiculously high valuation of the company. > They could have easily chosen a business model where they don't use your > phone number for any other purpose than for brokering trust between users. > This was especially true when WhatsApp was still a paid service after one > year of free use (I think they now no longer charge money, not even after > the first year). > > The formulation does however seem to focus on "we may contact you", and > binds them to draw a line between "customer services" and "marketing", > which seems totally fine to me, so there I agree with Hugo. > > But if you read this another way, they only give examples of what they > might use your phone number for, they don't explicitly restrict what > they'll do with it, so they may also use it to track you. > > So I would read this is "You have to provide your real identity, and there > is no clear guarantee that this will only be used for billing purposes and > user-to-user trust". But then again, similar services probably also don't > give such a guarantee. So all in all, let's classify this as the following > case: > > { name: 'pseudonym not allowed (user-to-user trust is relevant for > service)', point: 'neutral', score: 10 } > > from the 'track' topic (see https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-build/blob/ > 8bd1ec1f818f31ed77be9df6b5455decab8f6b01/scripts/cases.js#L135 ) > > > On Friday, August 31, 2012 at 10:36:28 AM UTC+2, Sebastián Waisbrot wrote: >> >> On 8/28/12 2:41 PM, Hugo Roy wrote: >> > Le jeudi 23 ao�t 2012 � 09:59 -0700, Sebasti�n Waisbrot a �crit : >> >> http://www.whatsapp.com/legal/ >> >> >> >>> We may, however, use your mobile phone number (or email address, if >> >>> provided) without further consent for non-marketing or administrative >> >>> purposes (such as notifying you of major WhatsApp Site or WhatsApp >> Service >> >>> changes or for customer service purposes). >> >> >> > Does it deserve a point in your opinion? >> Most mobile app don't collect your phone number to send you any >> information. WhatsApp requires your phone number to work, because it is >> its core, but they also reserve the right to use it for texting stuff >> like major changes (which IMHO is a marketing purpose). >> > -- > [!!] Please see https://edit.tosdr.org -- this is where new contributions > should be submitted and discussed > > tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/tosdr/3ynaJzse2j0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/tosdr/42732943-66e1-49f1-9307-57f1c092cca6%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tosdr/42732943-66e1-49f1-9307-57f1c092cca6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- [!!] Please see https://edit.tosdr.org -- this is where new contributions should be submitted and discussed tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tosdr/CA%2BaD3u2LbMZxK3p1MWO-W61Qn%2BwGcL3UxOpy2X%3D7YdV9Us-dFw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
