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WhatsApp postpones new privacy policy amid ‘confusion’ (archive.is)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They seem to be backpedaling because seeing Signal and Telegram gaining so helluva many new users must have been scary.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago

And they have done it already once with WhatsApp: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/technology/whatsapp-data.html

Yes, when Facebook made major changes to WhatsApp privacy policies in 2016, there was a brief moment of choice. People could check a box to order Facebook not to use their data from WhatsApp for commercial purposes.

Facebook would still collect the data from WhatsApp users, as I explained above, but the company would not use the data to “improve its ads and product experiences,” like making friend recommendations.

But that option in WhatsApp existed for only 30 days in 2016. That was a lifetime ago in digital years, and approximately four million Facebook data scandals ago.