WhatsApp users, this may be the company’s new plan to explain you its privacy policy
WhatsApp recently seems to have bought time by putting its new privacy policy on hold. The company has been on damage control to stop the exodus of its users to rival platforms Signal and Telegram. Now it appears that it wants to ensure that it clears all the confusion that WhatsApp users may have around the policy before the new deadline, May 15.
According to a report by WABetaInfo, the online platform that tracks all the upcoming changes and features to WhatsApp, the latest Android beta update of the app — version 2.21.4.13 — shows new communication about the new privacy policy apparently to clear users ‘doubts or misconceptions’ about the policy.
The WABeta report has screenshots about what it claims are of in-app notifications that WhatsApp will share with users to make them understand its privacy policy. The screenshots shared say that there will be no change in the end-to-end encryption policy, which means users’ private chats remain private. Secondly, chatting with businesses will remain options and lastly, no information is used for profiling the user or create targeted advertisements on Facebook.