> Newton-Rex said privacy is “in the DNA” of WhatsApp and that the company is trying to clearly communicate with users about what privacy protections WhatsApp offers and where.
This is bunk. If someone is added to a Group Chat they get everyone's phone number. There's near zero privacy for Groups and Communities.
This sort of article is a puff-piece for WhatsApp.
My understanding is groups and communities are for people who already know each other directly or indirectly, like a mutual friend or parents of students of the same class.
WhatsApp for Business is something separate from this.
Yes? Phone numbers are not top secret information. My schools always had a student directory that listed every student's home phone number and their parents' mobiles. We used to have phone books that listed everyone in town's phone number.
Back then, phone calls were expensive and my time/attention was cheap. Now phone calls are cheap and there's so many things I'd rather do than answer robocalls and anxious parents.
I noticed last year it stopped allowing me to use location sharing if I have the permission set to ask every time. It wants the permission permanently enabled.
It seems like they're trying to get people to enable extra permissions beyond what it really needs.
At least on iOS it works fine without contacts. You'll have to enter all numbers manually, but messaging works as expected. On android it's more annoying, because there's no way to explicitly enter phone numbers, but you can use the wa.me/[insert phone phone number here] to work around it.
This has been recently added, but Whatsapp if famous for being inconsistent and slow with feature rollouts
I know they stagger quite a bit, I can't even fathom pulling off their scale on so many variations of devices, keeping an indeterminate amount of versions all working in unison, so can't blame them either
Don't set a prefered app for calls and messages. Open contacts, open the contact you want and press call/message button. Android will ask which app to use. Select Whatsapp (or whatever you want).
Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default, so it would be a bad alternative to WhatsApp even if it was owned by Mother Teresa. At least if you care about privacy.
This is bunk. If someone is added to a Group Chat they get everyone's phone number. There's near zero privacy for Groups and Communities.
This sort of article is a puff-piece for WhatsApp.