Germany has banned WhatsApp’s controversial ‘take it or leave it’ privacy policy that comes into effect on May 15, will India be next?

WhatsApp updated privacy policy: Trouble does not seem to end for WhatsApp over its updated privacy policy. Now, Germany’s Hamburg data protection agency has barred social media giant Facebook from processing any of the additional user data that it collects from WhatsApp under the updated privacy policy that was announced at the beginning of the year. The policy has come under fire from users and countries across the world ever since it has been announced because WhatsApp is not only sharing additional data with Facebook, but it is also not letting users opt out of accepting this policy. The new terms and conditions will come into effect on May 15 and WhatsApp has already warned, it will essentially make its app “useless” if users don’t accept them (after an undisclosed period of time).