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To understand the conundrum that was created by WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, it is important to realize that WhatsApp is broadly used to communicate either with a business or with a user’s personal interests that are not businesses.   The new privacy policies have made no changes whatsoever, in the way the messaging is done in the nature of a personal communication between friends and families, however there are notable changes in the way the communication with a business entity is handled in WhatsApp, what with the new privacy policy in place. The background to the whole idea behind such changes in that regard is to do with the decision of the parent company ‘Facebook’, to integrate its services across all its platforms (including WhatsApp).   WhatsApp in its new privacy policy has clarified that the personal messages that are sent to one another on a consumer basis shall remain end to end encrypted as usual and no such data would be shared with Facebook. It also clarif...

Are you a citizen of Secular India or a puppet of religion? Does ‘oneness’ is superior or religion is? Why secularism is misused so much? Why do you think that secularism and Islam are not compatible? Recently an advertisement aroused an uproar in the commercial market and various online platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. when Tanishq jewelers launched an advertisement showing a bond between a Muslim mother-in-law and her Hindu pregnant daughter-in-law. In this ad, the th eme is related to promoting and understanding inter-religious faith by holding a ceremony of a baby shower which is Hindu faith practice and not celebrated by Muslims. Why this issue became so tensed that the company has to take down the advertisement for the safety of its employees and staff? Is it right, that on one hand we want unity and equality for all religions and on the other hand, people's sentiments get hurt when unity is portrayed in some way?   As, one set of the viewers of the adver...