Meta reveals new WhatsApp privateness options  

The US billionaire introduced the event on his official Fb web page.

“New privateness options coming to WhatsApp: exit group chats with out notifying everybody, management who can see while you’re on-line, and forestall screenshots on view as soon as messages,” Mark Zuckerberg stated.

He stated that the corporate is constructing new methods to guard the messages and maintain them as personal and safe as face-to-face conversations.

In the meantime, WABetainfo has reported that WhatsApp is now launching a brand new international marketing campaign with a view to inform customers about new options and the way the app secures their expertise by utilizing totally different layers of protections because of their privateness options: end-to-end encryption, two-step verification, end-to-end encrypted chat backup, and extra.

“The main focus of their marketing campaign can be to teach individuals to know what the true safety is: you will need to shield customers not solely when the knowledge is distributed however even when it’s saved (for instance, by utilizing end-to-end encrypted backups).”

As per the small print, after the brand new settings are rolled out solely the group admins will likely be notified if somebody leaves the group chat.

In keeping with the Whatsapp watcher, a person could have extra management over who can see when he/she is utilizing WhatsApp and when the person doesn’t need everybody to have the ability to see the net presence.

The person can select the choice “Similar as Final Seen”. This characteristic will lastly begin to be launched to customers this month.

The brand new privateness characteristic introduced by Mark Zuckerberg prevents taking screenshots to “view as soon as” picture or video.

The WABetainfo acknowledged {that a} person can nonetheless take screenshots of conversations, even when they include some disappearing messages, in the intervening time.

“As at all times, while you ship a view as soon as photograph or video, WhatsApp will inform you that individuals should get them by utilizing a secondary telephone or digicam, so it’s at all times essential to watch out when utilizing this characteristic: it’s as much as you.”

As well as, it added that there isn’t a system to tell the sender when somebody tried to take a screenshot to their view as soon as picture and video as a result of the try and take a screenshot will likely be routinely blocked.