Federal Minister for Technology Fawad Chaudhry has said that regarding thenew privacy policy of WhatsApp, the Ministry of Science and Technology isconsidering a strict law to protect the privacy of citizens.
On the beginning of this week, WhatsApp began changing its privacy policyand sent notifications within the app, changing the terms and conditionsand the privacy policy for using the application.
WhatsApp’s new rules and privacy policy will take effect on February 8,2021, and users will have to accept them, otherwise, their accounts will bedeleted.
The notification sent by the company stated that WhatsApp is updating itsterms and conditions and privacy policy.
The notification includes key updates that will increase the company’sauthority over user data and allow businesses to store and manage WhatsAppchats using Facebook’s services.
Facebook will be able to connect WhatsApp to its other services.
Users who have been using the WhatsApp for years must agree to these termsand conditions by February 8, 2021, to continue using the application.
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However, most of the users are angry over this change of WhatsApp and thisanger was also expressed by them on the social networking website Twitter.
And now the Federal Minister of Science and Technology has also expressedconcern over this new privacy policy and asked to consider bringing in newlaws to protect the rights of citizens.
In a tweet on social networking site Twitter, Fawad Chaudhry said that theWhatsApp privacy policy allows data sharing of users’ sensitive information.
He said the Ministry of Science and Technology was considering introducinga strong law to protect data for the protection of citizens’ privacy policy.
The Federal Minister said that such policy changes should be brought afterextensive consultation instead of a one-sided approach.
