WhatsApp Posts Messages In 'Status' Section To Allay Concerns On Its Privacy Policy

WhatsApp is making all-out efforts to allay concerns around its privacy features. After having published full-page advertisements in newspapers, WhatsApp has posted the same in the in-app Status section.

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After controversy on WhatsApp's new privacy policy, the instant messaging platform has issued various statements clarifying that the new policy will impact the users and the changes will only be made to the business accounts.

Even after the clarification, WhatsApp witnessed a huge downfall in numbers and thousands of users migrated to apps like Telegram and Signal looking for better security and encryption. Even business tycoons like Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Anand Mahindra moved to 'Signal' and urged people to follow the same. 

Though WhatsApp has postponed its new privacy policy which was going to be in effect from February 8, the platform is still facing wide criticism from the users. In A bid to convince the users WhatsApp has shared its message in the form of 'Status' in its own platform. 

In a set of four status posts, the messages were 'We are committed to your privacy', 'WhatsApp can't see your shared location', 'WhatsApp can't read or listen to your personal conversations as they are end to encrypted' and 'WhatsApp doesn't share your contacts with Facebook'.

 

The company in a blog post on Friday had said it was trying to clear up the confusion, and it included a chart that specifies what information is protected when someone uses WhatsApp.

Facebook executives, including Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart, also used Twitter to try and clear up the confusion.

The company said it is now going to use the three-month delay to better communicate both the changes in its new policy and its long-standing privacy practices around personal chats, location sharing, and other sensitive data.

"We're now moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the terms," the blog post read.