Whatsapp limits users age of its application at 16 years

Whatsapp has revealed a change in the number of operating standards for its application to European territory, in accordance with the EU General Regulation on Personal Data Protection, which will take effect on May 25.

US companies are under heavy pressure in the European market to protect user data, especially with the outbreak of many scandals that they were a party, not the most recent scandal of the data analysis company Cambridge Analytica, and many of the US technology companies and sentences of fines within the European Union, which prompted These companies to deal with the flexibility by modifying the laws of operating their programs.

Watts AG announced that its minimum usage for chat and instant messaging on EU soil was 16 years instead of 13 as in the past. Users were forced to confirm that they were 16 years of age or older in order to use the application and announced the creation of a European branch To pursue the application of European transparency standards.