WhatsApp delays new privacy policy by three months.
After receiving severe criticism and millions of users migrating from WhatsApp to other messaging platforms, WhatsApp has announced of delaying, the implementation of a new privacy policy by three months.
WhatsApp is facing massive backlash with tens of millions of its users moving from the platform to Signal and Telegram. The policy change was originally scheduled to come into effect on February 8, the Facebook-owned company said.
It has clarified that the update does not affect data sharing with Facebook with regard to personal conversations or other profile information and only addresses business chats in the event a user converses with a company''s customer service platform through WhatsApp.
"WhatsApp was built on a simple idea: what you share with your friends and family stays between you. This means we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see these private messages. It''s why we don't keep logs of who everyone''s messaging or calling. We also can't see your shared location and we don't share your contacts with Facebook," it clarified.
WhatsApp now has informed that it is now going to use the three-month delay to better communicate both the changes in its new policy and its long-standing privacy practices around personal chats, location sharing, and other sensitive data. "We're now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms," the blog post reads.
WhatsApp is facing massive backlash with tens of millions of its users moving from the platform to Signal and Telegram. The policy change was originally scheduled to come into effect on February 8, the Facebook-owned company said.
It has clarified that the update does not affect data sharing with Facebook with regard to personal conversations or other profile information and only addresses business chats in the event a user converses with a company''s customer service platform through WhatsApp.
"WhatsApp was built on a simple idea: what you share with your friends and family stays between you. This means we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see these private messages. It''s why we don't keep logs of who everyone''s messaging or calling. We also can't see your shared location and we don't share your contacts with Facebook," it clarified.
WhatsApp now has informed that it is now going to use the three-month delay to better communicate both the changes in its new policy and its long-standing privacy practices around personal chats, location sharing, and other sensitive data. "We're now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms," the blog post reads.