{"id":11177,"date":"2021-01-21T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3118694\/whatsapp-obsessed-indonesia-and-india-struggle-say-goodbye"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:39:03","slug":"whatsapp-obsessed-indonesia-and-india-struggle-to-say-goodbye-to-service-in-wake-of-privacy-squabble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/whatsapp-obsessed-indonesia-and-india-struggle-to-say-goodbye-to-service-in-wake-of-privacy-squabble\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp-obsessed Indonesia and India struggle to say goodbye to service in wake of privacy squabble"},"content":{"rendered":"When WhatsApp announced an update to its privacy terms earlier this month, many among its 2 billion users worldwide raced to download rival apps Signal and Telegram, including those in Asia\u2019s second- and third-largest countries, India and Indonesia.But analysts say abandoning the messaging app will be harder for the 450 million users in India, who form WhatsApp\u2019s largest base worldwide, and the 140 million in Indonesia, where the app has surged in popularity in recent years.Increased internet\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3118694\/whatsapp-obsessed-indonesia-and-india-struggle-say-goodbye\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When WhatsApp announced an update to its privacy terms earlier this month, many among its 2 billion users worldwide raced to download rival apps Signal and Telegram, including those in Asia\u2019s second- and third-largest countries, India and Indonesia.But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}