{"id":1499,"date":"2021-05-14T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/whatsapps-new-terms-of-service-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:36:20","slug":"whatsapps-new-terms-of-service-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/whatsapps-new-terms-of-service-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp\u2019s new terms of service: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the changes, why are they controversial, and how are they linked to Facebook?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/14\/whatsapp-to-force-users-to-accept-changes-to-terms-of-service\">WhatsApp to force users to accept changes to terms of service<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company wants to launch a range of features for businesses to make WhatsApp a place where users not only chat with friends, but also shop, plan and organise their lives. Announced way back in October 2020, these new tools have two main purposes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/14\/whatsapp-new-terms-of-service-what-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d5d283081c0d4de2f6f3800fcd60c5a3beb6a2ac\/0_150_4090_2454\/master\/4090.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8046c3adaa31c93edf3e077b78432c2d\" title=\"WhatsApp\u2019s new terms of service: what you need to know\" \/>What are the changes, why are they controversial, and how are they linked to Facebook?<br \/>\nWhatsApp to force users to accept changes to terms of service<br \/>\nThe company wants to launch a range of features for businesses to make WhatsApp a place where users not only chat with friends, but also shop, plan and organise their lives. Announced way back in October 2020, these new tools have two main purposes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the changes, why are they controversial, and how are they linked to Facebook? WhatsApp to force users to accept changes to terms of service The company wants to launch a range of features for businesses to make WhatsApp a place where users not only chat with friends, but also shop, plan and organise &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/whatsapps-new-terms-of-service-what-you-need-to-know\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp\u2019s new terms of service: what you need to know<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}