DUBAI: WhatsApp’s 2 billion active users face a dilemma. WhatsApp recently announced a new Terms of Service (ToS) and Privacy Policy. The “key updates” state that WhatsApp users must accept the new terms and policy or the app gets deactivated. It was later rolled back.
WhatsApp plans to offer users the ability to review the new privacy policy inside its app, ahead of the new May 15th launch (moved from February 8th). The company already tried to reassure users through WhatsApp’s Status feature, but now WhatsApp will include a banner that can be tapped to pull up the explanation of the new policy.
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Facebook chairman/CEO Mark Zuckerberg may not “like” it, but many Americans are fed up with his creation. Federal regulators Wednesday sued to force a breakup of the social media giant with a market value of nearly $800 billion. And New Mexico and 47 other states are accusing Facebook in a lawsuit of illegally acquiring competitors and cutting services to smaller threats, depriving users of the benefits of competition and reducing privacy protections.
This isn’t new. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act and split into 34 companies. In 1982, the Bell System was mandated to relinquish control of the Bell Operating Companies, effectively splitting the telephone monopoly into separate companies. In 2001, the U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the PC market. And most recently,