{"id":30742,"date":"2021-01-15T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30742"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:56:30","slug":"whatsapp-delays-controversial-privacy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30742","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp delays controversial privacy update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook-owned messaging service decided to push back an update to its privacy policy by three months amid widespread confusion over what the change actually means.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp sent users a notification last month that drove rumors that it was going to give Facebook access to view messages and contact lists.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being inaccurate, the rumors drove many users away from WhatsApp to other messaging services such as Signal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who has reached out to us and to so many who have helped spread facts and stop rumors,\u201d the company wrote in a blog post. \u201cWe will continue to put everything we have into making WhatsApp the best way to communicate privately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook-owned messaging service decided to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30743,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30742\/revisions\/30743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}