{"id":9133,"date":"2021-01-16T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/article\/3118018\/whatsapp-postpones-privacy-changes-hong-kong-experts-say-outcry-has"},"modified":"2021-01-16T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:28:13","slug":"whatsapp-postpones-privacy-changes-but-hong-kong-experts-say-outcry-has-already-evolved-into-crisis-of-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/whatsapp-postpones-privacy-changes-but-hong-kong-experts-say-outcry-has-already-evolved-into-crisis-of-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp postpones privacy changes, but Hong Kong experts say outcry has already evolved into crisis of confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"Amid a worldwide backlash against recently announced changes to its privacy terms, instant messaging giant WhatsApp on Saturday announced it would give users until May \u2013 rather than early next month \u2013 to decide whether they consented to the new arrangement.However, the postponement was unlikely to stem the recent exodus of users to other encrypted messaging apps, Hong Kong technology experts said, noting that the uproar over the changes had already morphed into a crisis of confidence, despite\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/article\/3118018\/whatsapp-postpones-privacy-changes-hong-kong-experts-say-outcry-has\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a worldwide backlash against recently announced changes to its privacy terms, instant messaging giant WhatsApp on Saturday announced it would give users until May \u2013 rather than early next month \u2013 to decide whether they consented to the new arrange&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":919,"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\/9133"}],"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\/919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}