“We accept WhatsApp is the most dependable spot to have a confidential discussion,” she said.
“No other worldwide informing administration at this scale gives this degree of safety to their clients’ messages, media, voice messages, video calls, and visit back-ups.”
The update will likewise see clients given the choice to permit just specific contacts – or nobody – to see when they are dynamic on the stage, bringing on the web status choices into arrangement with “last seen” settings.
Janis Wong, research partner at The Alan Turing Institute, told BBC News: “It’s dependably ideal to give clients more control – clients like, and have to have, more control.”
In any case, except if clients were provoked to utilize the elements, or made completely mindful of them in the application, their effect could be restricted, she noted.
“In the event that it’s not default, or on the other hand on the off chance that clients aren’t provoked to reexamine their choices, then it’s not really extremely helpful – on the off chance that clients don’t know this is the sort of thing that they can do,” she said.