assignment # 1

By: Robin Umar

Karachi: WhatsApp on Tuesday sought to reassure its two billion users that their messages to friends and family would remain confidential after a renewal of its term of office raised eyebrows on social media and was criticized by digital rights activists.

“We want to make it clear that policy updates do not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family in any way.” WhatsApp said although it had been updated, it and Facebook could not read users' messages or listen to their calls with friends, family or co-workers. Whatever you share stays within you. It means, that users' personal messages are protected by end-to-end encryption. The app owned by Facebook Inc. has also said it does not keep logs of who is texting or calling users and no Facebook can see the user's location shared with someone on WhatsApp. The parties also remain secretive, according to the company. “We use group membership to send messages and protect our services from spam and harassment. We do not share this data with Facebook for advertising purposes,” he said. “We offer businesses the opportunity to use secure hosting services from Facebook to manage WhatsApp conversations with their customers, answer questions and send useful information such as purchase receipts. But even if you contact the business by phone, email or WhatsApp, it recognizes what you are saying and can use that information for its marketing purposes, which may include advertising on Facebook.” Signal and Telegram have seen a sudden increase in demand following a review of WhatsApp's privacy policy. WhatsApp saw a 7 percent drop in daily subscriptions on Sunday compared to Wednesday downloaded by an estimated 1.2 million users on Jan 10.

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