WhatsApp Addresses Privacy Policy Rumors
After WhatsApp officially rolled out a new privacy policy notification that a user has to agree to use the app. WhatsApp users started sharing memes and posts about how WhatsApp is going to leak their personal information such as private chats and contact details with Facebook or third-party companies.
However, WhatsApp kept silent over the viral stories being shared about how WhatsApp is going to leak out personal information of users as people were really confident that their chats and other WhatsApp data is end-to-end encrypted and now the new privacy policy may share the data with Facebook, and so with other companies for advertising or other purposes WhatsApp officially tweeted more details about fresh privacy policy update and tried to clarify the new privacy policy of WhatsApp:
We want to address some rumors and be 100% clear we continue to protect your private messages with end-to-end encryption. pic.twitter.com/6qDnzQ98MP
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) January 12, 2021
In this official tweet, WhatsApp claimed that:
- WhatsApp cannot see your private messages or hear your calls and neither can Facebook.
- WhatsApp does keep logs of who everyone is messaging or calling.
- WhatsApp cannot see your shared location and neither can Facebook.
- WhatsApp does not share your contacts with Facebook.
- WhatsApp groups remains private.
- You can set your messages to disappear.
- You can download your data.
However, people are still concerned about their privacy on WhatsApp, you can read replies to WhatsApp's tweet:
Here is a clarification sent out by WhatsApp on the latest privacy concerns and data security.
— Ankit Bhuptani 🏳️🌈 (@CitizenAnkit) January 12, 2021
However, in my experience, it is not entirely true. Each time I chat with a new person on @WhatsApp, they are shown on my ‘friends suggestion’ on Facebook.
RT if you agree ✅
Are you going to :
— 🅱ahr 🅰bdUlrazzak 👨💻 (@insyria) January 12, 2021
share my device ID, phone number, activities (calls, whom I am messaging with), location, IP addresses?
If yes, then with whom?
If not, what type of data do you share (and please explain it in plain English)
My advice is to let us all in the even of Bullying by thes social media platforms remind them we make them and can break them, let us all delete our WhatsApp from, this will leave them with a shell and bankruptcy for being cocky.
— JAMAICANS GET UP! STAND UP! DON'T GIVE UP D FIGHT! (@AbiahAbiah1) January 12, 2021
OK if my speeches are protected, can you explain this to me? Last week he took two photos of shoes to my friend, and then while I was walking around Instagram, there are many models of the same shoes, that brand, and I wrote a story about that shoe on Instagram. I did not shoot. pic.twitter.com/2QCcC7D8O7
— şehr-i âzâd (@KasVegasl) January 12, 2021
So, people are giving more importance to Telegram, Signal, and other privacy-focused messaging apps and still most of the WhatsApp users are confused with the new privacy policy update.
