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WhatsApp said on Monday it has responded to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's letter from last week, assuring them that the messaging service will not limit functionality for its users if they do not accept the new privacy policy update. “We have responded to the Government of India’s letter and assured them that the privacy of users remains our highest priority. As a reminder, the recent update does not change the privacy of people’s personal messages. Its purpose is to provide additional information about how people can interact with businesses if they choose t...

Highlights Days after the government directed the messaging platform to withdraw its new privacy policy, a WhatsApp spokesperson said the company has responded to the letter and has assured that the privacy of users remains the highest priority for the Facebook-owned entity. Its purpose is to provide additional information about how people can interact with businesses if they choose to do so, the spokesperson added. WhatsApp had been warned that necessary steps in accordance with the law will be taken if a satisfactory response was not received within seven days. Amid facing criticisms over i...

Highlights According to WABetaInfo, the Facebook-owned platform might soon let users transfer their chats to a different phone number. WhatsApp's iOS-Android migration tool further reveals that you won’t be able to migrate chat history at any time and it can only be done when you link a new Android phone to your account. Besides that, WhatsApp will also migrate media files to the alternate phone number. Popular messaging platform WhatsApp has been working on chat migration and sync features for quite some time and now it has come up with an update that has the potential to improve the featu...

Highlights This is a typical case of online extortion or can also be termed as cyber sextortion. These scamsters often use their good language skills to lay the trap for winning the trust of the WhatsApp user so that they can do sex chat on video call. Besides that, they ask for a lumpsum amount from the victim which puts them in financial distress. WhatsApp has been in controversy for quite some time now due to its implementation of the much-talked about privacy policy which has raised eyebrows of many and it has become a debate in the public discourse.

Beware of THIS new scam on WhatsApp - Find out how you can avoid cyber sextortion - WhatsApp: If they don't get the money they desire, these people also threaten to upload screenshots on the internet and make them go viral.