After trying to appease unhappy WhatsApp users for the past few months, Facebook rolled out its new terms of service on Saturday. The privacy policy change was announced last year and was originally set to be implemented on February 8th. But Facebook had to deal with a massive backlash from users in early January when WhatApp users received notifications about the upcoming changes. They were told to accept the new privacy policy or risk losing access to the service.
Tens of millions of people downloaded competing chat apps Signal and Telegram, forcing Facebook to reconsider. The social network delayed the privacy policy change rollout to May 15th and started a massive information campaign to explain to WhatsApp users that end-to-end encryption will remain enabled by default on chat and calls to alleviate concerns about the planned changes. But not all WhatsApp users were confused. Many knew Facebook wanted more data from WhatsApp, and Facebook never perfectly explained why it needed more WhatsApp data.
After a German regulator issued an injunction to prevent Facebook from processing WhatsApp data in the country for the next three months, the Indian government is calling for Facebook to withdraw the new terms of service completely.
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India wants Facebook to withdraw its controversial WhatsApp privacy policy originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 19 May 2021 at 23:47:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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