{"id":183169,"date":"2021-02-19T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whatsapp-goes-ahead-with-controversial-privacy-policy-update\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:58:32","slug":"whatsapp-goes-ahead-with-controversial-privacy-policy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whatsapp-goes-ahead-with-controversial-privacy-policy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#WhatsApp<\/a> goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update<\/strong>”
\n<\/p>\n

\n

WhatsApp is pressing ahead with a privacy policy update that sparked a backlash last month \u2014\u00a0but it promised to give people plenty of time to review the changes.<\/p>\n

The messaging service took another crack at reassuring users that the update would not let Facebook, its parent company, read their private chats. Those concerns led WhatsApp to delay the rollout of the update from February to May.<\/p>\n

In a Thursday blog post<\/a>, WhatsApp said it would place a banner within the app \u201cproviding more information that people can read at their own pace.\u201d The platform said it\u2019s also using its \u201cStatus\u201d feature to share updates with users.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be doing much more to make our voice clear going forward,\u201d the Thursday blog post said. \u201cEventually, we\u2019ll start reminding people to review and accept these updates to keep using WhatsApp.\u201d<\/p>\n

The policy is changing because WhatsApp is adding a feature to allow users to directly message businesses on its platform. The new policy requires users to agree to those conversations being stored on Facebook servers, leading many users to think that Facebook \u2014\u00a0which bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014 \u2014 would have access to their private chats.<\/p>\n

The concerns led millions of people to start using other encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram and Signal, which saw an influx of new users after WhatsApp announced the changes on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp fired back at its rivals Thursday while stressing that messages between individual users would always be end-to-end encrypted, meaning they can\u2019t be read by anyone outside the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen some of our competitors try to get away with claiming they can\u2019t see people\u2019s messages \u2014 if an app doesn\u2019t offer end-to-end encryption by default that means they can read your messages,\u201d WhatsApp said on its blog. \u201cOther apps say they\u2019re better because they know even less information than WhatsApp. We believe people are looking for apps to be both reliable and safe, even if that requires WhatsApp having some limited data.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

For forums sites go to Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“#WhatsApp goes ahead with controversial privacy policy update” WhatsApp is pressing ahead with a privacy policy update that sparked a backlash last month \u2014\u00a0but it promised to give people plenty of time to review the changes. The messaging service took another crack at reassuring users that the update would not let Facebook, its parent company,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/whatsapp-gets-privacy-update.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94145,5055,71380,5056,4974,72047],"class_list":["post-183169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-19-21","tag-apps","tag-digital-privacy","tag-encryption","tag-facebook","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}