Today, WhatsApp has become one of the applications essential for any smartphone user. Thanks to her we can communicate via text or calls IP with any of your contacts that also use the messaging client, however, a careless configuration can seriously compromise our security and privacy allowing unknown users to control what we do, what hours we connect and see the photographs we have to identify us.
These days, privacy is something that is very important and, with the rise of new technologies, very difficult to maintain. Normally, both social networks and messaging and applications customers use default a permissive privacy settings, i.e., that allows others to view our data.
Specifically, if we talk about WhatsApp, any that you have our phone number (or guess it randomly) could, in addition to send any kind of message:
- See our last connection time.
- See our profile picture.
- See the State sentence.
In addition, it is also possible that, if someone sends us a message, you know if we have read it or not, being one of the functions more controversy in the history of the Messenger client.
A correct configuration of WhatsApp customer will improve our privacy
WhatsApp settings menu we can find these privacy options. In the case of view the time of the last connection, the profile picture and status can choose if we want anybody not to see it, to see it just the people we have on our agenda, or if we want to make this information visible to all.
In the case of the read receipt we can enable for all or disable it, and in addition works is reciprocal, i.e. If we deactivate the settings on reading others will not see that we have read your messages, but we do not know if they have done. Finally, a very important option for those heavy, hazardous or unknown users is the block list. Put them on this list may not write to us or call us, avoiding any major problems.
Then, we leave an article where we explain step by step how to configure these privacy options so that they adapt to the needs of each one.
How to properly configure your privacy on WhatsApp
As we can see, a very simple task that will not take us more than one couple of minutes and which, however, will improve significantly our privacy in an increasingly connected world.
Do you have configured correctly WhatsApp privacy options and the rest of social media?
The article the importance of privacy in WhatsApp was published in MovilZona.