

On January 9, WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart tweeted that this policy is purely for business communication, rather than private. The platform celebrated a milestone of 1.4 billion video and audio calls on New Year’s Eve 2020, but the celebrations seemed premature given the global backlash to the platform’s updated privacy policy, which features a ‘take or leave it’ clause - if the user refuses to share data with Facebook, they will have to quit WhatsApp. It has been a confusing January for WhatsApp. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories.
