WhatsApp explains if they violated users' privacy after the recent update

There is no talk in the past period except for the new transformations that the chatting and instant messaging platform WhatsApp intends to make on its application, which threatens according to many to violate their privacy and personal information since the company will start sharing this sensitive information with other companies affiliated with the parent company Facebook

This news, which spread very quickly among users, prompted many of them to leave the WhatsApp platform already or to think about it, while competing applications witnessed the mass migration of WhatsApp users to it, especially the Telegram application in addition to the Signal application, which was recommended by Elon Musk in a tweet on his account on The social networking site Twitter, which made the number of its users increase dramatically and unexpectedly and in a very short circumstance

And it seems that Facebook's WhatsApp application has become facing a challenge that is the first of its kind in its history and since its acquisition by Facebook in 2014, especially since it has the largest database among competing applications with more than 2 billion active users, but it has already started At the loss of its users, what prompted it to issue an explanation about the recent controversy over its new usage laws, which many considered a violation of their privacy

And Twitter said in a new clarification to it that users misunderstood the new updates on the laws of use, and that they do not affect the privacy of users' messages with friends or family in any way, instead, this update includes changes related to messaging a company on WhatsApp, which is It is optional, and it provides more transparency about how data is collected and used, as WhatsApp confirmed that the app and Facebook do not read users' message logs or listen to their calls, and that WhatsApp does not store user location data or share contact information with Facebook