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By Pranay Parab | Updated: 15 January 2021 22:18 IST

Does WhatsApp’s New Spell the End for Your Privacy?

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On this episode of Orbital, we discuss WhatsApp's new and what it means for your data. Tech lawyer and legal director of SFLC.in (Software Freedom Law Center) Mishi Choudhary s host Pranay Parab to talk about this. We begin this episode by discussing what the change in WhatsApp's means for you. WhatsApp's been sharing data with Facebook for a long time, but what has changed now? Also, how is WhatsApp's earlier data sharing agreement with Facebook different from what it's offering now? Mishi answers all of these questions in detail.

Then we talk about why you should be Signal — one of the best privacy focused messaging apps in the world right now. Finally, we talk about what steps you can take to make sure that you don't get stuck on platforms that are bad for your privacy, and why this is very important.

That's all for this week's episode of Orbital, which you can subscribe to via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or RSS, the episode, or just hit the play button below.

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