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Last week, nearly 2 billion people worldwide using WhatsApp, with Facebook messaging, were received by a major app when they launched the app.
“WhatsApp is changing its terms and secrets,” it said.
Printing led to 4,000 words Privacy Policy, which states that WhatsApp will now be free to share information such as phone numbers, IP addresses, and billing transactions via the app with Facebook and other Facebook platforms such as Instagram. It also states that if people use WhatsApp to communicate with businesses that use Facebook technology to manage their chats, these messages can be used by the business to follow the advertisers on Facebook.
Unless people approve of the new terms, they will be locked out of WhatsApp on Feb. 8.
On the Internet, the resumes were quick. “Use the Token,” he wrote Tesla CEO Elon Musk to his 42 million followers, referring to WhatsApp’s popular open source with people who do a lot of privacy like journalists and freedom fighters. “I use it [Signal] every day and I did not die, ” he wrote American whistleblower Edward Snowden. In Turkey, the press office of President Tayyip Erdogan and the Ministry of Homeland Security have announced that he was tearing down WhatsApp When the process changed, he opened the survey to move.
Signal has become the most free app in all Google and Apple stores in many countries around the world. More than 8,800,000 people downloaded Signal on iPhones and Android phones in the week of January 4, compared to 246,000 people last week, according to the company Sensor Tower. Telegram, another way to WhatsApp, He said Tuesday that more than 25 million people joined in the last 72 hours.
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“I was worried about my privacy,” J. Paul, an advertising expert from Mumbai who only wants to be known by his first name, told BuzzFeed News. “Facebook develops its products in ways that worry users.”
Apart from Facebook itself, WhatsApp is the largest and most popular activity on Facebook. In markets like Brazil and India, the program is an unchanging way communication of hundreds of millions of people. But in the meantime, Facebook, which paid $ 22 billion to fund 2014, has remained independent and has not tried to make any money. Now, it’s changing.
“We remain committed to the privacy and security of our private communications,” a WhatsApp spokesman told BuzzFeed News, offering sleep on a page that the company wrote earlier this week outlining the new principles. “The best way to strengthen the end-of-term system is to have a business that can protect private communications.”
The site claims that WhatsApp thinks that texting with businesses is different from texting with friends and relatives, violating what the company may share with Facebook in the future.
The new privacy policy will allow Facebook, which made more than $ 21 billion in the last quarter of 2020 from advertising, to use WhatsApp to make more money. But doing so means trying to use more users to make more – and can take the risk of sending more of your competitors instead.
“If you spend $ 22 billion to get something, soon, shareholders want you to make money,” Mishi Choudhary, a New York-based online human rights lawyer, told BuzzFeed News.
WhatsApp, launched by two former Yahoo people, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, initially paid people a dollar a year. After Facebook made the app free to use, the growth exploded. For a few years after buying the app in 2014, Facebook left WhatsApp alone. But in 2018, it launched WhatsApp Business, which allows businesses to use WhatsApp to connect with customers. For the first time, Facebook wanted WhatsApp to start making money.
Last year, WhatsApp added additional features to the company, such as travel tickets and purchase receipts, catalogs, and payment. WhatsApp says there are more than 50 million businesses on the platform, and more than 175 million people post business on the app every day.
“He wants WhatsApp to be a pay-per-view and a marketplace, yet another area of your life will be affected by Facebook’s efforts,” Devdutta Mukhopadhyay, a lawyer at the Internet Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization working to protect digital freedom, told BuzzFeed News. “This is what they have changed by changing their privacy policy.”
“I don’t trust Facebook,” Paul said. He recently closed his Facebook account, although he still uses Instagram and WhatsApp. “I need to have them, but I don’t trust you,” he said.
WhatsApp’s reliance has been on since Facebook’s acquisition. Koum defended the sale of the app on Facebook in 2014 blog post, stating that the company did not want to know more about the public. “If partnering with Facebook meant we had to change our minds, we wouldn’t do it,” he wrote. Two years later, however, WhatsApp he announced to begin sharing information, including phone numbers and last time Facebook users – the European Union stupid and 110 million euros.
The contents of previous books are false. Many people did not realize that WhatsApp’s privacy policy is only about chatting with businesses and not talking about privacy with friends and relatives, and urged others to ignore the app.
“I really don’t think most people who are currently angry about going to the Signal or Telegraph have actually read the secret,” Mukhopadhyay said. “No matter how hard it is to say, what people are experiencing tells them they can’t trust companies like Facebook with their knowledge.”
In response, Facebook is doing great. In India, the company’s largest market with more than 400 million people, the company cut off the front pages of major newspapers and completely advertised that it could not see people’s private messages or listen to their phones. “Respect for your privacy is written in our DNA,” said WhatsApp advertisers, confirming the line from Koum’s blog in 2014.
Top Facebook executives, e.g. Instagram header and Facebook’s the subject of reality, sent tweets to support the program.
On Friday, Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, also posted a number of tweets, confirming how the company did not view public conversations and that new privacy statements are being used for messages and businesses only.
“It is important to note that this describes business connectivity and does not change the way WhatsApp shares data sharing with Facebook,” he wrote. “It doesn’t matter how people talk to each other with friends or relatives wherever they are in the world.”
Cathcart did not respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.
Despite this cry, losing WhatsApp in countries like India can be difficult. Paul, an advertising specialist from Mumbai, said he would continue to use the app until he encouraged anyone who knew to move to Signal.
“It’s not hard to sell,” he said, “because WhatsApp is so simple.”
