WhatsApp new privacy policy implementation which was originally scheduled to come into effect on February 8, has been delayed by three months after facing massive backlash with tens of millions of its users. Most of them started moving from the platform to rivals like Signal and Telegram.
WhatsApp now says 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 will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see these private messages. It’s why we don’t keep logs of who everyone’s messaging or calling. We also can’t see your shared location and we don’t share your contacts with Facebook,” it said further.
“No one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8. We’re also going to do a lot more to clear up the misinformation around how privacy and security works on WhatsApp,” it added.
The company said no one will be losing access to the app if they didn’t agree to the new terms of service agreement that communicated the changes earlier this month.
