After trying – and failing – to fight public outrage using a Serie of ostensibly well-intentioned tweets, Whatsapp announced on Friday it would postpone its plans to implement a series of controversial changes to its privacy policy.
The original plan that WhatsApp launched at random earlier this month said that countless users would be required to agree to the new terms by February 8, or risk terminating their accounts. Now, users have until May 15th.
It is not clear what WhatsApp expects to happen in the coming months. Partially because WhatsApp is over accidentally misrepresenting exactly what this update was actually update, countless users were under the impression that Facebook would have access to spy on them through their WhatsApp chats (will not), or that WhatsApp would reveal your bank information to the parent company (not again)
While Facebook executives were on Twitter desperately trying to control damage, data authorities across many countries were asked to open investigations into the application’s data sharing practices, and Crowds of previously stubborn WhatsAppers flooded other encrypted chat apps Signal and Telegram on registration numbers. Sign – flying high out of your fist hit Elon Musk–suffered multiple previous interruptions Oon Friday simply because it was not built to handle the flow of new users.
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The problems that WhatsApp is trying to solve here are the same ones that various media—Gizmodo included– initially dinged the platform: BBy painting these policy updates in general and giving users only a few weeks to respond, WhatsApp ended up scaring countless users. In the next three months, she plans to “do a lot more” to clarify things and be a little less evasive when discussing the way WhatsApp handles users privacy and security.
As the Verge points, WhatsApp will still try to enact these same controversial policies as soon as the new deadline is met, only in a more gentle way. Rather than abruptly putting on in an inscrutable policy update on countless people’s phones, WhatsApp says it will go to people “gradually” and allow them to review policies “at their own pace”.
If WhatsApp maintains its current communication tactics, however, just tell, you will only see more exiles until the time comes.