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On Whatsapp, it will no longer be possible to take a screenshot of ephemeral photos.
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MESSAGING – Alert, news. WhatsApp, through a post by Mark Zuckerberg (the boss of Meta, the parent company of the group), announced several features that will protect our privacy a little better. Without specifying however on what dates they will be available. In 2021, the application had launched the ephemeral photos, which disappear once closed. A good idea, but useless if the recipient can take a screenshot. Well, that won’t be possible soon.
This is the app that will directly block screenshots. Needless to say, sending nudes has never been safer. However, the risk of seeing these photos broadcast or sent to others has not completely disappeared since there are other ways to immortalize this brief moment, such as photographing with another phone.
The second novelty concerns our presence in a group. Thus, other members will no longer be notified when you choose to leave it. Only administrators will be, which will prevent all participants from being spammed. Good news for those worried about endless group chats. Third novelty, WhatsApp will allow you to decide who can see if you are online or not.
“As safe as face-to-face conversations”
So it would seem that our privacy ultimately matters a bit to Mark Zuckerberg who described these features as a way to make users’ posts as “safer than face-to-face conversations”.
These changes come as Meta faces growing criticism over how its privacy features could be misused. In particular following the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 where the data of millions of users had been used to influence their vote – in particular for Brexit and the American presidential election of 2016.
According to a Sky News report, Mark Zuckerberg wants to prevent Meta himself from reading the content of messages, in the same way that he cannot access those sent on WhatsApp. But these changes have not yet been implemented.
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