Amid a worldwide backlash against recently announced changes to its privacy terms, instant messaging gianton Saturday announced it would give users until May – rather than early next month – to decide whether they consented to the new arrangement.
“There are, in fact, not many privacy issues with the new policy. But this has become a confidence problem. It’s like when you decide which bank to put your money in, you’d only choose the one that you like.” “I also call on the messaging app to provide further information and sufficient explanation to affected users in the meantime to alleviate the public’s concern.”
The new policy prompted a wave of users to switch to other encrypted messaging apps in such great numbers that one rival, Signal, experienced an outage on Friday as the surge in use “exceeded even our most optimistic projections”. “We’re also going to do a lot more to clear up the misinformation around how privacy and security works on WhatsApp. We’ll then go to people gradually to review the policy at their own pace before new business options are available on May 15.”
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