ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) will announce a strategy regarding the new privacy policy issued by messenger application WhatsApp in the few upcoming days.
According to details, the authority was carrying out a detailed review of the new policy and its related aspects after which it would prepare a strategy. A source told a local newspaper WhatsApp had suddenly made changes in the policy so PTA couldn’t respond to it immediately.
Facebook-owned application WhatsApp has introduced changes to its privacy policy for the use of the application and informed users via a notification to read the changes. It is mandatory for users to accept the new policy by February 8.
As per the new policy, WhatsApp will use data of users, including user’s name, mobile number, photos, statuses, phone model, operating system, device information, IP address, mobile network, location and other related information and share it with other social media platforms connected to WhatsApp as well as third-party users, including Facebook.
The application may retain private information on transactions and payments. The changes have irked a large number of WhatsApp users and provoked a strong reaction on social media.
Earlier today (Tuesday), WhatsApp issued a new blog post clarifying its privacy policy and reiterating that it does not share private messages or sensitive location data with Facebook.
The detailed blog post answers questions around messages, location data, call logs, groups, etc adding that none of this data is collected nor is it shared with Facebook.
