The government has stepped in following privacy concerns over the Facebook-owned messaging app's new update which gives WhatsApp the right to share user data

California-based messaging app Signal's co-founder Brian Acton, who also co-founded WhatsApp, has said that he finds the latter's new privacy policy 'very confusing' and 'hard to follow'

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said in his channel that 25 million new users joined Telegram in the last 72 hours.

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WhatsApp has now released an official statement clearing the air about the rumors and speculations that surround new terms of service and policies.

Signal has witnessed a never-seen-before surge in new users, days after WhatsApp updated its privacy policy. Signal, the encrypted messaging service, has been chosen as the more secure alternative to the Facebook-owned messaging app. In the past few days, it has become the most downloaded app in India, Germany, France, Austria, Finland, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Watch the video for more.

This is second such clarification issued by WhatsApp as it had earlier stated that the update would only affect business accounts

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Many WhatsApp users deleted their accounts and migrated to Signal, which is a messaging app owned by a non-profit organization.

Tata Steel Ltd and other companies, have begun issuing advisories to staff asking them to avoid sharing sensitive information on WhatsApp and stop using the platform for critical business calls

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WhatsApp has found itself in hot water after updating its policies that list down how the platform plans to collect and share data with other Facebook companies but leaves users with little option to decide what information they want to give access too.

WhatsApp last week updated its privacy policy that will go into effect from February 8. Telegram has been sharing memes on Twitter trying to convince users that it is a better platform.

The Confederation of All India Traders has written to the Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad demanding a ban on WhatsApp and Facebook for updating its privacy policies.

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Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, said that the new WhatsApp terms ask users to feed all their private data to Facebook's ad engine and that it is resorting to covert marketing that requires multiple bots.

Signal said it is seeing such a surge in new users that it is witnessing delays in phone number verifications of new accounts

The policy update message enraged WhatsApp users with a host of them threatening to leave the app and join its rivals. And its rivals -- Telegram and Signal -- were just waiting to hear that