India's Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Will Cathcart has asked WhatsApp to drop the update of your privacy policy. The representative wrote a letter to the company, stating that the lack of an option to opt out of the new terms of service was unfair to Indian citizens. Therefore, the country would not tolerate unilateral changes.

India's pressure on the company is no small feat. The country has the largest share of WhatsApp users in the world, and a migration to rival services – such as Signal, for example – would put the green messenger at serious risk. In addition, the Indian government is moving towards passing the Personal Data Protection Bill in Congress.

It's not just in India that WhatsApp's new privacy policy has caused a stir. Telegram alone, for example, gained 25 million new users since then. The public is not interested in Facebook selling data from their conversations to companies – and to that end, they are even deleting your accounts. At the same time, the Signal has seen a 4200% increase in your downloads after the competitor's terms of service change.

WhatsApp is making up for lost time

Following India's challenge, WhatsApp is trying to clear up misunderstandings about its privacy policy update. The still No. 1 messaging app says that private messages will remain secure and encrypted, and that data collection will only work with messages exchanged with WhatsApp Business accounts.

WhatsApp's new terms of service have many users concerned about privacy. The messaging app is owned by Facebook Group, which already has a bad reputation for how it manages its users' data.

Finally, it's not just WhatsApp that has been receiving criticism regarding its terms of service. Recently, WhatsApp's privacy policy Apple was also called unfair. Guess by whom?

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