2024-02-08 10:09:42
The Digital Markets Law was passed for the first time in 2022, and changed the laws of the communications world. According to the law, owners of chat and communication platforms must allow users to send and receive messages from all other platforms. Now WhatsApp also has to submit to the changes imposed on it, and soon it will allow sending messages through it to competing platforms as well.
WhatsApp in a dramatic change: users will be able to forward messages to other applications
The dramatic change of WhatsApp will allow users from different platforms to send messages to each other, meaning that a message or recording sent via WhatsApp can reach Telegram and vice versa. The problem will of course be the safety that WhatsApp guarantees to its users, and its ability to keep encrypted messages when these can be transferred from one platform to another.
Dick Brewer, the company’s director of engineering, gave a glimpse of what is going to happen in an interview with Wired, and clarified that Meta will only be open to applications that can prove that their protocols meet the company’s standards and will have to sign a contract with quite a few clauses before they can connect. “There is a real tension between offering an easy way for users to send messages, while at the same time maintaining the privacy, security and integrity of the platform,” he admitted.
This law is designed to promote competition between different services, with WhatsApp belonging to Meta having a lot of power and influence compared to others, with more than 2.24 billion active users worldwide. In the interview, Brewer explained that users who activate the feature will be able to receive messages from other platforms in a new section that will appear in the application, probably in a different column than all the chats.
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