Amid Backlash In India Mark Zuckerberg Defends Whatsapp New Privacy Policy

The upcoming WhatsApp privacy policy received a heavy backlash in India, where people stated that this update would have no privacy of their personal message with their friends and family. But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the privacy policy saying that this will not change the privacy of anyone the messages.

 Recently the WhatsApp policy has put on hold till 15th May and aims to share commercial user data with Facebook. After which the Government of India wrote a letter to CEO of WhatsApp Will Cathcart to withdraw the new updated privacy policy.

 He further said that all the messages are end-to-end encrypted that means that anyone can’t see or hear anything and will never unless the person chooses to share it and business messages will only be hosted on the infrastructure if the business chooses to do so. Even Facebook is also developing new features to make it even easier to accomplish with businesses in the application.

As per the report, more than 175 million people message WhatsApp Business accounts every day.

Zuckerberg further said that they are building tools to let businesses store and manage their WhatsApp chats by using the reliable hosting they have it, and they are already working on updating WhatsApp’s privacy policy in terms of services. So even the users can send messages across the different applications, and there is more interoperability. He also assured the users that they would bring the same world class privacy features, making the application fairly distinct.

Image Source – Google

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Leave a Comment