WhatsApp, the most popular of the message to the world, and it has been a feature of the new users in the european: the ability to communicate with the platform and other third parties.
WhatsApp and the Regulation of the Market, the Digital: what the changes to the user's european
This innovation was submitted in accordance with the Charter of the Market to the Digital (DMA), the regulation of the European Union, which aims to promote the competition and interoperability in the sector of digital. WhatsApp started testing this feature for integration with applications, and with third parties in the Android devices starting in September 2023. Then extended it to the iPhone in January, 2024.
Through the implementation of these features, WhatsApp comply with the rules set out by the DMA, making it into a platform for her message in a space, the more open and inter-connected with other services, according to the diktateve of the EU legislation on competition in the market, a unique digital.
How does the interaction between the application of messages of the Meta, and the platforms of the other
Interoperability between WhatsApp and platform to the other, it would mean that the user can start or to get a conversation with a user's use of the applications and the other for the message as a Message, Signal, or Messenger. This feature is evident in a section of a new, dedicated to the “people of the third party” within the app. However, interoperability is not enabled by default, but it does require the express consent of the user.
According to WABetaInfo, users will be able to decide which platform they want to communicate, being turned on or off, this option is available based on the preferences of their own. In this way, WhatsApp guarantee the security and privacy of its users, while respecting the standards of the eu.
The focus on security and user experience
In an interview with the last Dick Brouwer, technical director of the WhatsApp, the justifikoi their choice by stating that the integration of the application with third parties, it was designed to protect users from spam, etc. and possible fraud. At the same time, said Brouwer, and this window will allow the user to benefit from the messages in the most affluent and the most interoperable, due to the possibility of interaction with an ecosystem on a wide range of services.
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