Web-based media platform Facebook is changing its privacy policies on its messaging platform WhatsApp. Basically, the organization has been compelled to push back execution of the questionable terms from February 8 to May 15, 2021.
Offering a channel through which a user can chat with a business customer service by means of WhatsApp—the reasoning for the changes—stays an income producing opportunity for the platform.
Facebook’s $1 billion procurement of Kustomer before the end of last year, demonstrated it expects to give organizations more apparatuses to misuse its solid base of users.
If the new privacy policies are executed, WhatsApp customers in some locales around the world would be compelled to share their data to Facebook and its different contributions to continue to use the well known service.
WhatsApp fights that a ton of “deception” has been spread about the new terms, yet the backfire has been extraordinary. However, the new policies don’t have any significant bearing in Europe, since laws protecting residents’ data privacy are severe.
As of now, WhatsApp brags of more than 2 billion clients around the world, with India, being the biggest base with 450 million users. That said, according to some experts, Facebook is engaging in surveillance capitalism, by turning personal data into assets it can resell.
Since WhatsApp’s original announcement of the new policy last year, rival Telegram has announced that it surpassed 500 million users, including 25 million new ones in three days alone and another competitor.
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