WhatsApp panics as users flee to rivals in privacy boycott - The Mail & Guardian

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The encrypted messaging service is having to embark on some damage control after criticism about its new terms and conditions.

There was “a lot of misinformation” about an update to terms of service regarding an option to use WhatsApp to message businesses, Facebook executive Adam Mosseri, who heads Instagram,WhatsApp’s new terms sparked criticism, as users outside Europe who do not accept the new conditions before 8 February will be cut off from the messaging app.

“We can’t see your private messages or hear your calls, and neither can Facebook,” WhatsApp said in a blog post. “We don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging or calling. We can’t see your shared location and neither can Facebook.”“We’re giving businesses the option to use secure hosting services from Facebook to manage WhatsApp chats with their customers, answer questions, and send helpful information like purchase receipts,” WhatsApp said in the post.

Durov, 36, said on his Telegram channel that the app had more than 500-million monthly active users in the first weeks of January and “25-million new users joined Telegram in the last 72 hours alone.”“People no longer want to exchange their privacy for free services,” Durov said, without directly referring to the rival app.

 

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