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"I already hear conspiracy theories": Facebook CEO Israel responds
WhatsApp has informed users that it will update its privacy policy, resulting in users being startled and starting to look for alternatives like Signal and Telegram.
Facebook Israel's CEO is now announcing a change in the new policy
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Thursday, 14 January 2021, 10:26
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In the video: Facebook Israel CEO Adi Sofer Thani explains "The business of us all" (Walla! NEWS Studio)
"We recently updated the terms of our privacy policy, and received a lot of questions. Alongside a number of rumors, we wanted to answer some of the most popular answers we received."
This is what WhatsApp wrote in a blog post on the company's website.
It seems that the change in policy that will take place in February has caused a wave of departures of WhatsApp users, out of a justified concern for privacy.
Among the alternatives are Signal and Telegram, which have enjoyed a significant increase in the number of users in the past week.
Bootsaf pressed highly reactive update the terms of use caused, and Facebook CEO Israel, Adi Super Thani, issued a clarification Facebook page her.
"People ask me a lot of questions about the most recent update of Privacy Policy Booatsaf around information sharing between whatsapp up and I hear already conspiracy theories That any connection between them and reality is absolutely coincidental - so let's try to make order.
Let's start with the fact that this policy update does not in any way affect the fact that all the messages we send and receive on WhatsApp are completely private and encrypted from end to end.
The latest update only addresses changes regarding how businesses can use WhatsApp to connect with customers, "wrote Super Thani.
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"Both WhatsApp and Facebook do not have the ability to see the private messages that people send and also not to hear the conversations they have. We cannot read messages or hear conversations between friends, family and co-workers. Everything people share and write on WhatsApp is private, and remains only between participants. In the same conversation - it has not changed and it is not going to change! ", She concluded.
Users have begun to worry about their privacy terms and Signal and Telegram are profiting
In Signal, the platform that has been gaining momentum over the past week continues to make it clear that they do not share information, and that no message or metadata (phone type, operating system, version) is transmitted to them.
They also stressed that the only information that was saved was the phone number, but they were working on a method to encrypt this information as well.
As a result of the change in policy, WhatsApp Telegram enjoys a significant increase in the volume of use in the world and in Israel.
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