Messaging app WhatsApp has been under questions for the past several days, Due to its new privacy policy. Users are calling it an attack on their privacy, they have issued clarification about the questions arising on their own, it has been said from the company that we want to remove some loved ones and make 100 percent clarification and want you to keep your private messages end to end encrypted. The update in the privacy policy will not affect the communication made with your friends and family, as well as answers to some questions in WhatsApp, this is a question that has been on the mind of the user of WhatsApp for the past few days.
WhatsApp has declared that it's delaying application of the new privacy policy till may 2021, because the company desires that users 1st perceive the new privacy policy terms and conditions and then agree. It admitted that the Whatsapp new privacy policy has caused lots of confusion within the users and there has been a great deal of info concerning the changes also. Further, WhatsApp has additionally secured that it'll not delete anyone’s account on February 8,2021.
The Facebook the parent company Whatsapp is giving people at least 3 months of duration to properly analyse and settle for the privacy policy. WhatsApp said that the privacy policy can get a result on May 15,2021. Here’s a glance at however all this started and what the case is presently.
Messaging WhatsApp update its privacy policy on January 4, 2021
With the start of this new year, the messaging app WhatsApp updated its privacy policy and asked users to agree to the changes before February 8,2021. The new updates included more information about how businesses use Facebook hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats. It also expanded on how WhatsApp partners with Facebook to offer integrations across the Facebook Company.
WhatsApp brings out that the new privacy policy would also impact people's interactions with Whatsapp business accounts, many of which might use Facebook’s hosting services. The data sharing with Facebook was already taking place since 2016, when the last major update to the privacy policy took place. But keep in mind, WhatsApp never said that it would share people's data like chats or group names for group chats with its parent company Facebook.
WhatsApp faced backlash, people switch to signal or Telegram
With the update of the new privacy policy, while it did not change anything for personal chats. Many were not happy with the ‘accept or leave’ conditions that WhatsApp had added in the terms and conditions. Further privacy issues were increased and a lot of irrelevant information also spread about the app.
Due to privacy issues, many people switched to the other app Signal the is developed by developer of Whatsapp application, which is a more privacy focused messaging app. As a result, Signal achieved the number one position on App Store in India and number third position on Google Play Store. A lot of people started downloading the private messaging app when Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly urged users to use Signal. Many also moved to Telegram as it is a feature-rich messaging app.
Whatsapp clarification issues
WhatsApp has made it clear that their policy update will not violate the privacy of any company, the company says that this update will be on the business account from the official, that is also an option for the users.
As people were worried about privacy and planned to switch on other messaging apps, WhatsApp clarified that neither WhatsApp, nor Facebook can see people' private messages or hear their calls video as well as audio. The company said that all the chat of users are end-to-end encrypted, and it doesn’t keep logs of who people message or call. The service also tried to clarify that WhatsApp can’t see the shared location (neither can Facebook), and it doesn’t share users’ contacts with Facebook.
“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 said.
But it did clarify again that business chats between users and enterprise accounts were impacted under the new policy. As the new policy underlined, messaging a business on WhatsApp is not the same as one-on-one chat with your friends and family, given a business could use a third-party service to manage and host these chats. It could also use Facebook’s services to manage these chats and later use this data to say run an advertisement on the social media network.
WhatsApp extends deadline of privacy policy agreement
WhatsApp had asked its users to accept the new privacy policy by February 8, but it has now extended the deadline to May 15. The company believes that users are confused about their new terms and that they don’t have proper clarity on the latest privacy policy. WhatsApp has also confirmed the account of users won’t be deleted on February 8.
“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.
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