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Amid privacy row, WhatsApp says won't limit functionality of users

"We will not limit the functionality of how WhatsApp works in the coming weeks," ANI quoted a WhatsApp spokesperson as saying.

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Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp, on Thursday, reiterated its commitment towards safeguarding users’ privacy. Responding to the row over its contentious privacy policy update, the company said that the recent update doesn’t change the privacy of personal chats, but provides additional information about how people can interact with businesses. 

“We will not limit the functionality of how WhatsApp works in the coming weeks,” ANI quoted a WhatsApp spokesperson as saying. 

WhatsApp’s privacy policy update allows the company to extract more data from users’ chats with WhatsApp business accounts, which may then be shared with other Facebook group companies. This data could then be

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