WhatsApp is engaging distrust internationally after it updated its privacy policy to let it stake some users data with parent Facebook and other group companies, and the reaction hazards uncomfortable its desires in its biggest market, India.

However Whats app  has up till now to see quantity uninstalls of its app in India, users worried about privacy are gradually downloading competing apps such as Signal and Telegram, examination companies say, pushing them  higher on the download charts and putting those apps fast of their abundant rival in India for the head time.




The reaction in India — where 400 million users conversation more messages on WhatsApp than anywhere in the world — has obligatory the messaging app to unleash an advertising blitz price tens of millions of rupees this week in at least 10 English and Hindi newspapers.

 It supposed its privacy policy update does not disturb the privacy of your messages with your friends and family in any way. WhatsApp has also said that the variations to the privacy policy are only connected to users’ communications with businesses.

When requested for observation, WhatsApp mentioned Reuters to its issued statements on privacy.

The media movement — similar to one it entered two years ago when it was facing condemnation in India for not doing enough to limit falsehood — underlines the sternness of the disaster for the world’s most widespread messaging policy.

Recent  in 2020, Facebook financed $5.7 billion in the numerical unit of Indian oil-to-tech group Reliance,  the social media’s largest deal since its $22 billion takeover of WhatsApp in 2014.

A huge part of the India asset hinges on a WhatsApp and Dependence project to allow about 30 million mom-and-pop store owners to perform transactions digitally.

While WhatsApp’s expense facility, accepted by India’s top payments processor late last year after two years of waiting, does not reduction under the privacy policy update, any considerable user shift to other messengers could mean losing out to well-entrenched rivals.