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Viral Social Media Message Alleging WhatsApp Had Secretly Changed User’s Privacy Settings: Misleading but Needs Attention

Lawstreet Journal 27 May 2021 6:35pm

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Various social media platforms, including Facebook, is flooded with a viral message that WhatsApp had secretly changed its user's privacy setting. 

The viral message alleges that WhatsApp has recently changed the choice of a privacy setting, relating to groups, of every user to 'everyone'. A change that will allow anyone on the platform to add any user to WhatsApp groups without consent.

One of the messages reads:

“WhatsApp has changed its group settings to include ‘everyone’ by default so people you don’t know can add you to a group without your knowing. These people may include scam messages, loan sharks, etc. You can change its default setting as follows: 1. Go to WhatsApp; 2. Go to settings; 3. Go to Accounts; 4. Go to Privacy; 5. Go to Groups; 6. Change from (Everyone) to (My Contacts). This is true. I have checked mine and all settings had been changed to everyone instead of my contacts.”

Several cybersecurity experts have confirmed that there were no recent or secret changes to the Group Privacy settings on WhatsApp. But the experts pointed out that the choice 'Everyone' was a default setting ever since when WhatsApp introduced the privacy setting back in 2019. The information about the default option is reported to have been mentioned in the official blog of the messaging platform.

The experts also opined that most users' privacy setting would be in the default setting of 'Everyone' unless they were changed earlier. So, most users who check their… Continue Reading...


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