At the beginning of 2023, the Commission of the European Union (EU) in cooperation with other institutions decided that in European countries, the regulation of the European Union’s digital services should be enforced. Markets Act {DMA}’.
This law was established in order to facilitate the transmission of information, to facilitate people’s access to technology services and to bring more transparency in this sector, but there are other reasons that have been established. The law was passed after it became clear that some of the most powerful technology companies, including Google, Amazon, and Meta,
seem to contain or have specific ways of storing and controlling information between the services of the technology startup and those who need them are considered to have disturbed the competition of various companies in this sector, One of the things that these companies or their programs will require is to share information with other programs that one can compare as short links, through common services, known as ‘interoperability’.
The WhatsApp site is already owned by Meta, which is also one of those methods, where users will be able to send messages of words, {text Files}, photos or videos to others who do not use it, but use other sites or messaging applications such as iMessage, Telegram, Google Messages, Signals and more.
However, this will require that there will be an agreement between WhatsApp management and the other website that wants to interact with it, WhatsApp declares that it is ready to work with anyone in accordance with this new law, but that it must already use the protection of its customers’ data, in order to avoid other consequences including the misuse of that data.
The European Union, which has given companies like Meta and others until the end of 2024, to have completed the implementation of all the requirements of the new law, and that it may go outside of Europe in the future.
