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After users flee in backlash, WhatsApp delays data sharing change

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January 16, 2021
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After users flee in backlash, WhatsApp delays data sharing change

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 6, 2020 a user updates Facebook's WhatsApp application on his mobile phone in Mumbai. - Secure messaging app Signal is at the top downloads on Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries after the popular messaging app WhatsApp asked its some two billion users on January 7, 2021 to accept new terms that will allow it to share more information with its parent company Facebook and roll out advertising and e-commerce. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

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SAN FRANCISCO : WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal.

The smartphone app, a huge hit across the world, canceled its February 8 deadline for accepting an update to its terms concerning sharing data with Facebook, saying it would use the pause to clear up misinformation around privacy and security

This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook.”

This file photo taken on October 5, 2020 shows the logo of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on a tablet screen in Toulouse, southwestern France (Lionel
It said it would instead “go to people gradually to review the policy at their own pace before new business options are available on May 15.”

The update concerns how merchants using WhatsApp to chat with customers can share data with Facebook, which could use the information for targeted ads, according to the social network.

“We can’t see your private messages or hear your calls, and neither can Facebook,” WhatsApp said in an earlier blog post.

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