WhatsApp Privacy Policy: Government questions CEO, asks to withdraw recent changes to privacy policy In a strongly worded letter to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, the ministry also raised concerns about the information security of the users as the new policy of WhatsApp proposes to share the metadata of users' chat with business accounts with other Facebook companies. Source: Reuters The Indian government has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the recent changes in the privacy policy of the messaging app, saying 'any unilateral changes to the WhatsApp Terms of Service and Privacy would not be fair and acceptable'. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology was opposed to this 'all or nothing' option that Whatsapp had left for its users when it first rolled out the new update.