Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has defended WhatsApp privacy policy amid India backlash

 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shielded the forthcoming WhatsApp security strategy that has seen an enormous reaction in India, saying that the update doesn't change the protection of anybody's messages with loved ones.

The WhatsApp strategy has now been required to be postponed till May 15. It expects to impart business client information to parent Facebook. The Indian government has likewise composed a letter to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart to pull out the arrangement.

In a quarterly income call with experts on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said that the organization has moved the date of this update back to give everybody time to comprehend what the update implies.

"These messages are start to finish encoded, which implies we can't see or hear what you say and we never will, except if the individual that you message decides to share it and business messages might be facilitated on our framework if the business decides to do as such," Zuckerberg said.

In excess of 175 million individuals message WhatsApp Business accounts each day.

"We are constructing new highlights to make it considerably simpler to execute with organizations in the application," the Facebook CEO added.

"We're building apparatuses to allow organizations to store and deal with their WhatsApp talks utilizing our safe facilitating foundation in the event that they might want and we're currently refreshing WhatsApp's security strategy regarding administration to mirror these discretionary encounters".

Raising worries over the WhatsApp security strategy, the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT has requested that the informing stage pull out the update.

In its emphatic letter to Cathcart, the service has pummeled the stage's "win or bust" approach. The letter noticed that the proposed changes to the protection strategy raise "grave concerns with respect to the ramifications for the decision and self-sufficiency of Indian residents."

The issue is likewise being talked about at the Delhi High Court.

On interoperability among Messenger and WhatsApp, he said that the greatest contrast between the two applications is clearly the association with Facebook and the sort of same character and diagram that you use on Facebook accompanies you to Messenger.

"So regardless of whether you can send messages across the diverse applications and there is greater interoperability and we bring a similar elite security highlights to both, I believe that, that will in any case cause the applications to feel genuinely particular," Zuckerberg clarified.