WhatsApp has announced that it’s delaying a planned privacy update after user “confusion” about the policy led to a mass exodus from the messaging platform, Forbes reported.
Users were first notified of the privacy changes via an in-app notification last week, and many believed the update would require that personal data was shared with WhatsApp’s parent company Facebook.
Although the company has since clarified that that the privacy policy has nothing to do with consumer chats or profile data and is instead related to businesses using the service for customer service purposes, the company announced on Friday that it would push back the update until May 15 – a major blow to WhatsApp’s attempts to generate revenue through its business and shopping services.
WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, does share some limited data with Facebook, including phone numbers. However, the firm has reassured users that messages will always be protected by end-t0-end encryption, which means neither WhatsApp or Facebook can see these private conversations.
Too late. You’ll just do it at a later date. Whatsapp has shown your true colors.
We’re done.
This guy is not on our side of things and hard to trust.
Hoping we all switch to signal.
I’m not sure why the confusion is being put in quotation marks. This update would not affect the privacy of anybody who uses regular WhatsApp, it only made people realize what they originally agreed to when signing up.
Absolute garbage. Facebook, instagram, whatsapp are all owned by Mark Zuckerberg. His intentions are tainted. Having that much power makes him believe he’s G-d.