Accepting that it had led to “confusion” and spawned a lot of “misinformation”, Messaging Service WhatsApp Saturday announced it will be delaying the implementation of its New Privacy Policy until May 15. This, the Facebook product hopes, will give users more time to “review the Policy at their own pace”. Ever since it announced the New Policy in early January, there was confusion over whether this means parent Company Facebook, which has been facing some Trust deficit Globally, will get to access user messages.
As this confusion, Partly caused by a hard-to-understand Privacy Policy which chose to not spell out how the changes will play out on Ground, gained ground, millions of users across the World chose to look at options, even as WhatsApp gave users the option to accept or leave the service.WhatsApp has also reiterated in the new post that users have nothing to be worried about.
“WhatsApp was built on a simple idea: what you share with your friends and family stays between you. This means we will always protect your personal conversations with end-to-end encryption, so that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see these private messages. Which is why we don’t keep logs of who everyone’s messaging or calling. We also can’t see your shared location and we don’t share your contacts with Facebook,” it says.