WhatsApp, a messaging App owned by the US social network Facebook (Fb), has changed its privacy policy to require users to agree to WhatsApp sharing user information with Fb.
The company’s founder, tesla, tweeted on Thursday that people should switch to the encrypted messaging program Signal.
WhatsApp requires users to agree to terms by next month’s 8th, otherwise their accounts will be deleted, and several celebrities have spoken out calling for a boycott. The company’s first ever “domino effect” is a metaphorical picture of the Fb being responsible for the riots on Capitol Hill. The first domino reads “a website that rates campus girls,” alluding to Fb, which was founded at Harvard University, while the last domino is one of the protesters who stormed the Capitol.
A spokesperson for WhatsApp responded that the change in privacy policy was to allow the company to store WhatsApp conversations in Fb’s massive facility.
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