WhatsApp, a popular social and messaging mobile application, has come under fire these days due to a change in privacy policy. Its founder assured that they would not be affected by the new policy and their data would not be provided to anyone. He explained in a detailed statement on Twitter, which was also retweeted by WhatsApp.
"Because of end-to-end encryption, neither we nor Facebook can see your private messages or calls. We are committed to providing this technology and defending it globally," he said in a series of tweets on Twitter.
I've been watching a bunch of discussion this week about the privacy policy update we’re in the process of making @WhatsApp and wanted to share some thoughts.
— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) January 8, 2021
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"We have updated our policy for transparency and better explains the People to Business Optional features, we wrote it in October, including the commerce in the WhatsApp," he said.
He said that not everyone knows how common WhatsApp messages of businesses are in many countries, in fact more than 170 million people message a single business account every day and many want to do so.
"We have privacy competition with others, which is great for the world. People should have a choice about how they want to communicate and they should be confident that no one else sees their chats," he said. Maybe, some people, including some governments, don't agree.
Keep in mind that notifications of WhatsApp's new policy have now reached users around the world. Significant updates to the notification state that the company's authority over user data will increase and businesses will be able to store and manage WhatsApp chats using Facebook's services. WhatsApp on Facebook The app will be able to connect to your other services.
It is to be noted that WhatsApp recently sent a message to all users regarding the privacy policy with which the users had to agree. The company said that if the user does not agree with the new privacy policy, 9 His WhatsApp account will be blocked after February.
