The Facebook (FB) owned messaging app WhatsApp has changed its mind and it is postponing the launch of a new privacy policy. The changes have followed Signal, one of its main competitions, having registered an estimated 7.5 million downloads in response to the WhatsApp warning.
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According to the encrypted messaging app, the changes, which are being made to reflect the fact that it is moving into e-commerce, are being postponed until mid-May due to confusion surrounding the review.
The deadline for reviewing and accepting the terms has been delayed. The company has stated that they intend to clarify misinformation concerning how privacy and security work.
A pop-up notification was viewed by more than 2.2 billion WhatsApp users worldwide on January 4 asking them to accept the changes that could affect how and what amount of data could be shared between the app and the rest of Facebook.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, on January 7, urged his Twitter followers to switch to Signal. Over 7.5 million downloads of the instant messaging application have been recorded from the App Store and the Google Play Store.
It was not until last week that “Signal Advance”, a small American corporation, was made famous by Elon Musk’s mistake. The world’s richest person instructed his 42 million followers to use “Signal” in a deceptively cryptic tweet. It led to a very expensive mistake when many of them blindly followed that order. As a consequence of the madness, Signal Advance, an entity that only shares the name, shot up 6,300% in three days.
The Tesla CEO’s statement was completely misinterpreted. He was simply urging people to download an encrypted messaging app called “Signal” instead of speculating mindlessly on a penny stock with almost the same name. The company’s shares were sold off as if there was no tomorrow after realizing they had gotten a “wrong signal.”
