WhatsApp has deliberately pushed the deadline for updating its user privacy policy, owing to backlash it received from netizens since the platform announced the new policy application starting February 8th, 2021.
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, meaning only a message’s sender and recipient can read it, and those messages are not stored on Facebook servers. But WhatsApp is also pushing aggressively into messaging for businesses. The updated privacy policy was intended to alert users that some businesses would soon be using Facebook-owned servers to store messages with consumers. Facebook has said that it will not access those messages for any type of ad targeting, but language in the updated terms of service concerned many users who worried that Facebook would suddenly see their private messages.
This is what their Twitter handle mentioned –
This happened when WhatsApp is losing a lot of users, since the updated privacy policy was ruled out.
“We’re now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms. No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8. We’re also going to do a lot more to clear up the misinformation around how privacy and security works on WhatsApp. We’ll then go to people gradually to review the policy at their own pace before new business options are available on May 15,” the company said in a new blogpost.
WHAT THE FUSS…WhatsApp!
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