We want to address some rumors and be 100% clear we continue to protect your private messages with end-to-end encryption.
Our privacy policy update does not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family.
Learn more about how we protect your privacy as well as what we do NOT share with Facebook here: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/answering-your-questions-about-whatsapps-privacy-policy
Facebook is an untrustworthy organisation, and a clearly increasingly desperate one, given its crashing stock price and the huge number of users closing both fb and Whatsapp accounts. The people have decided: BigTech will pay dearly for interfering in the November 2020 U.S. election, censoring content relating to election fraud, lying about the events of 6 January 2021 in Washington, D.C., and censoring free speech. I urge all readers to close their fb and Whatsapp accounts immediately.
Most people have already switched to signal and telegram, we say no to big tech and their cersorship