{"id":956253,"date":"2025-08-20T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956253"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:37:51","slug":"is-ai-really-scanning-your-whatsapp-chats-paytm-founder-vijay-shekhar-sharma-thinks-so-heres-what-whatsapp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/is-ai-really-scanning-your-whatsapp-chats-paytm-founder-vijay-shekhar-sharma-thinks-so-heres-what-whatsapp-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI really scanning your WhatsApp chats? Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma thinks so: Here\u2019s what WhatsApp says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp recently got an update in its privacy section and the Internet cannot keep calm. Soon after releasing a new privacy feature that allows users to enhance their privacy by opting out of AI features, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma went on an alert spree. In a post on X, Sharma went on to alert his followers on the suspicion that WhatsApp\u2019s latest update allows the AI to read chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp recently got an update in its privacy section and the Internet cannot keep calm. Soon after releasing a new privacy feature that allows users to enhance their privacy by opting out of AI features, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma went on an alert spree. In a post on X, Sharma went on to alert his followers on the suspicion that WhatsApp\u2019s latest update allows the AI to read chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}