Whoever designed WhatsApp’s privacy policy notification must feel like the most foolish person on the planet right now.
A generic alert along the lines of “Hey, we’ve updated our Terms of Service/Privacy Policy, check it out here” wasn’t good enough; the approach, instead, was to present an ominous message about new data collection and sharing practices, with a demand to agree by 8 February, or else…
Little needs to be said about the immediate fallout. Panic spread across social media and WhatsApp groups as privacy advocates and the media began to point out that WhatsApp is indeed owned by Facebook …
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