Another discussion involving WhatsApp. This time, companies are using a program breach to provide user monitoring services, for example, to find out which contacts you talk to over the phone. application.
According to the technology company Traced, WhatsApp shows the “online” status of all accounts in the app without any limitations, even for contacts that are out of your calendar. With the information, some institutions started using the flaw to control user activity within the application, which is a great opportunity for stalkers.
Monitoring promises to even discover cases of betrayal
The platforms of surveillance they just need a phone number to be registered in the program to start the Tracking. With everything set up, the service starts to show all times when the user was online on WhatsApp.
For example: if a suspicious user (of some betrayal) places the number of his partner and the other person on the platform, the service points out when the two accounts were online at the same time, indicating the possibility of a conversation between the profiles.
As the whole process is done with just a number of cell, at no time does the account owner provide consent for monitoring. Thus, the user may never be aware that their data has been tracked.
What’s more, the companies that provide these services are technically not committing a crime, as WhatsApp allows all users to view online status.
The company has not officially spoken on the subject, but there are simple measures by the social network to avoid the problem. The easiest way to resolve the breach would be to give users the option of disabling online status or else making the information unique to anyone who is added as a contact.
Recently, security experts have also found a structural flaw in the messenger that allows anyone to block their account using just their phone number.
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