A lot of misinformation & rumors are surrounding the latest updates by WhatsApp and now the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stepped in to clear the baseless acquisitions that WhatsApp can hear, see and store the chats and phone calls made through it.
Zuckerberg said that new updates are being released to make businesses connect with consumer more easily using its secure server and the experience is optional for businesses in the application. All the messages and chats still remain end-to-end encrypted and neither Facebook nor WhatsApp can see or share those messages until the person who you have messaged chooses to do so.
The new privacy policies have been postponed till May so that all the confusion and misinformation regarding the same could be cleared. WhatsApp has more than 175 million active user presences.