We all want to keep our message conversations private so no one reads them, too this is how almost every moment happens. However, there are ways in which our privacy can be filtered, as it was recently discovered. Because, did you know that when you search on Google you can find WhatsApp group chats? Yes, that's right that we confirmed it. Though we should not be scared.
As VICE participated today on an increasingly controversial topic (like everything about privacy on WhatsApp), the popular messaging app has a small hole in group discussions. Just open Google, write & # 39; https: //chat.whatsapp.com' and get more private one-on-one conversations can be read by simply accessing the invitation link. This, which seems serious at first, is not the fault of WhatsApp, but of users. And it has its logical meaning.
When you publish a link on the Internet is displayed
It's as simple as: Everything published on the Internet is likely to be indexed by search engines like Google. So it is enough for a person to share a WhatsApp group invitation to a forum to make this conversation accessible to anyone with a simple Google search. And with him all messages, photos, videos and other content shared in the conversation, with significant privacy risk including.
Various Twitter users have shared their search and findings in private conversations accessible through search, such as Jordan Wildon either Jane Manchun Wong. Tweets show how to reach these groups: just write & # 39; Ipsps: //chat.whatsapp.com & # 39 ;, The root URL of the group invitations, access many of these invitations. And by following any of them you can get in touch with all that is shared with them.
Publishing an invitation to the WhatsApp group means that Google and other search engines are pointing it out in their results.
As we mentioned, making it easier to access private conversations on the Internet is not a WhatsApp error since nothing in the app is available by Google and other search engines. Of course, when the group's founder (or its managers) publishes an invitation link to forums, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other pages that allow data manipulation, all those links it will be available to anyone who wants it. It's like leaving a door wide open: someone might not go inside; without blaming the doorkeeper.
Our recommendation is that nor invitation links to groups have been published: This must be private. Because you never know who can join in the discussions.
Via | VICE
