Added to this is people’s growing anxiety over data privacy, as well as the amount of their data tech giants, have access to. You may recall that WhatsApp recently announced its updated Terms of Service to share its users’ data, including location and phone number, with its parent company Facebook Inc and other apps it owns. The new policy compels two billion WhatsApp users to either agree to the new terms and conditions or have their accounts deleted. Although there is no major change to how WhatsApp handles users’ data, yet people immediately interpreted the app’s privacy notification to mean that it was mishandling all kinds of personal information as well as and sharing that data with businesses. Doing your due diligence will make it easy for you to decide whether or not to keep WhatsApp, shift to Signal, Telegram, Seecrypt or even Threema.

Source: Punch January 23, 2021 23:48 UTC