FB - Massive backlash to Facebook's Whatsapp changes due to user clarity or confusion as Facebook claims?
As reported earlier, Facebook (FB) is delaying a controversial update to WhatsApp's privacy policy after it was greeted with massive user backlash, resulting in millions of users migrating to Signal and Telegram.Facebook has tried to present the cause of the massive user backlash as confusion, as reported in our earlier story. WhatsApp's announcement read: "We’ve heard from so many people how much confusion there is around our recent update". It claims that many users read the change as implying that their personal conversations would be shared with Facebook, even though they are encrypted.But no news coverage of the change to WhatsApp's terms of use (that we are aware of) has misrepresented the issue in this way. Rather, all coverage has emphasized that WhatsApp by default shared sensitive user data with Facebook, including the user's name, profile picture, phone number, phone book contacts, location, and IP address, as well as data about
For further details see:
Massive backlash to Facebook's Whatsapp changes due to user clarity or confusion, as Facebook claims?