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Did you change your privacy settings without asking?

A message says “WhatsApp has changed its group settings to include “everyone” by default, so people you don’t know can add you to a group without you knowing. These people can include scam messages, etc. This is true and it was found that all the settings were changed to everyone instead of to my contacts ”.

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This can alert those people that when they go to confirm if it is true, they see that in fact their configuration for the groups indicates “All”. This is the option marked by default for these mass chats since the update that WhatsApp introduced and notified in 2019, and it is not tied to the latest service policy update.

That is, if the user who is alarmed at his configuration and did not make a change in it in the last two years, You will see the option ‘all’, but not because WhatsApp has changed it now with a new update, but because it did it two years ago. There will also be users who directly wanted to leave that option.

A spokesperson for WhatsApp confirmed to Europa Press that the service allows anyone with a user’s phone number to send them a message or add them to a groupLike anyone, you can send an SMS or email if you have the contact information. And said that “in 2019 they added new controls for people who wanted to put limits on who could add them to groups. “

WhatsApp, In addition to allowing you to change the configuration of the groups, it has tools that allow you to block and report other users, and notifies the user of the settings each time a person who is not registered as a contact is added to a group.

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