~$ WhatsApp Privacy Policy Changes eNCA Interview

Posted on Jan. 19th, 2021. | Est. reading time: 4 minutes

I had the distinct privilege of being interviewed on eNCA yesterday!

eNCA — a.k.a. e-News Channel Africa — is the first and most watched news service in South Africa. You can imagine that it came as a bit of a shocker to me to receive a message request in my Twitter DM’s from one of their guest bookers, asking me if I’d like to come on and discuss these policy changes. So I decided to do it.

A great thank you to the host (Dan Moyane) for their professionalism, as well as their accurate and neutral questioning. Remaining in the same observational stance as my article — and not a confrontational stance — allowed us to cover a lot of ground and enabled me to additionally dispel a few myths and hoaxes while I had a platform. I know it may not have seemed to be a professional interview (mainly due to my part in it), but it was an opportunity for honest and open discourse, and that alone is quite humbling for me. I wish to extend my thanks to eNCA for taking the time to view privacy as an important matter, important enough that it should be discussed on their platform.

I can only hope that people got enough material from that interview to start an open and honest discourse on matters important to society as we move forward in a world where we cannot live without Big Tech.

As for how I had landed in their field of vision, I only know a part of the story: