WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy
WhatsApp updated its privacy policy and was planning to implement it by 8 February. But this decision welcomed a lot of criticism from the users as the concern regarding the privacy of personal chats and messages and the data shared on the platform. It eventually benefitted other competitors such as and most profited from this case, Signal, a private messaging app. A lot of WhatsApp users deleted their WhatsApp account and shifted to Signal, which came as the most secure alternative to WhatsApp. Accounting to this wave of criticism, WhatsApp thought that it is in their best interest to postpone the implementation of the new updated privacy policy and prevent losing their valuable loyal users. The whole case was just a result of the spread of misinformation among people; WhatsApp actually said that the updated privacy policy includes only businesses. This means that once you accept the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the app has the right to share user details and transaction details, and the privacy of individual and personal chat was not compromised. WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption meaning that only the communicating users can read the messages, so the question raised was that an updated privacy policy will eliminate this system, and the intellectual property of the users will go public. To infuriate this fear and doubt of the users, personal chats of the very famous journalist, Arnab Goswami went viral, disclosing some serious information and causing him a lot of trouble. How the chat got leaked? And is WhatsApp doing anything to get hold of the source who leaked the chats?
