After strong backlash, Facebook has decided to delay a privacy policy change for its globally popular social media platform WhatsApp by three months, from February to May. As we are before they informed a few days, the change is that the application will now share users' personal data with other companies of the social giant.
Almost immediately after Facebook announced the change, there was a strong backlash against it, and users began hastily migrating to competing platforms such as Signal or Telegram.
In a statement, the app itself explained, from its point of view, “erroneous informace", which started circulating among people after the original announcement. “The policy update includes new options for people to communicate with businesses and provides even greater transparency about how we collect and use data. While not everyone is shopping on the platform today, we believe that more people will do so in the future, and it is important that people know about these services. This update does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook,” it said.
Facebook also said it would do "much more" in the coming weeks to clear up the wrongdoing informace about how privacy and security work on WhatsApp, and on February 8 it said it would not block or delete accounts that did not agree to the new policies. Instead, it will "go gradually with people to assess the policy at their own pace before the new business opportunities become available on May 15."
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Just let them deactivate those accounts. I am always amused by the extortion practices of this spy company. Fortunately, the outflow of users made it clear to them that there are still limits where even a large company stumbles. Good for them.