WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg reveals new privacy features
User will be suitable to leave group exchanges quietly, control who can see their online status and block screenshots on View Once dispatches.
Meta principal superintendent Mark Zuckerberg said this would help keep WhatsApp messaging" as private and secure as face- to- face exchanges".
It'll begin rolling out the features this month, pressing them in a global crusade, starting in the UK.
Leave quietly
The popular messaging app presently cautions all members of a group converse to someone leaving or being removed by dereliction.
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And while there are ways to disable this for individual group exchanges, the option to leave quietly isn't presented to druggies when they choose to" exit group" occasionally causing awkwardness, embarrassment or drama for those trying to leave unnoticed.
But now, they will be suitable to leave without notifying all other group converse druggies, only group admins.
Product head Ami Vora said it was part of the platform's focus on" erecting product features that empower people to have further control and sequestration over their dispatches".
" We believe WhatsApp is the most secure place to have a private discussion," she said.
" No other global messaging service at this scale provides this position of security for their druggies' dispatches, media, voice dispatches, videotape calls, and sputter back- ups."
This will also see user given the option to allow only certain connections- or no- one- to see when they're active on the platform, bringing online status options into alignment with" last seen" settings.
Janis Wong, exploration associate at The Alan Turing Institute, told BBC News" It's always nice to give druggies more control- druggies like and need to have further control."
But unless user were urged to use the features or made completely apprehensive of them in the app, their impact could be limited.
Still, or if user are not urged to review their options, also it's not inescapably veritably useful," If it's not dereliction.