India Antitrust Body Orders Investigation Into WhatsApp's privacy policy changes (techcrunch.com) 2
WhatsApp's planned policy changes aren't sailing smoothly in India, the instant messaging service's biggest market by users. From a report: Indian antitrust body, Competition Commission of India, on Wednesday ordered an investigation into WhatsApp's privacy policy changes, saying that Facebook-owned service breached local antitrust laws in the guise of a policy update. The Indian watchdog has ordered nation's Director General (DG) to investigate WhatsApp's new policy to "ascertain the full extent, scope and impact of data sharing through involuntary consent of users." The Director General has been ordered to complete the investigation and submit the report within 60 days. In its order, the Indian watchdog said WhatsApp's "take-it-or-leave-it" nature of privacy policy and terms of service "merit a detailed investigation in view of the market position and market power enjoyed by WhatsApp."
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The outrage over the policy change made many of my friends switch to Signal (with a bit of nudging from yours truly.
What's funny is that I don't know what changed in the policies, and they dont know either. They simply saw people crying for their privacy on social media and decided to jump on the privacy bandwagon.
I am not complaining, but I guess that there IS bad publicity after all.
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The basic changes amount to "Facebook owns it all and WhatsApp can gather everything it can from your phone". Apparently there was some limits to what WhatsApp actually collected and gave to facebook, so the changes basically now mean "everything is now ours".