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WhatsApp: no, not everyone now has access to your private chat groups

2021-10-19T09:58:29.098Z


Several chains of alarming messages have been circulating at a faster rate than usual since the last massive outage of the application of


Always free of charge and still not open to the four winds.

Playing on the fear of intrusion, several viral alert messages have been transferred over the past week on a modification of the settings of the WhatsApp application, which would cause your private discussion groups to be opened to all.

Their dissemination has grown in intensity since the resounding blackout of the world's most popular messaging system.

“WhatsApp changed privacy settings last night without warning.

This means that all the groups you find yourself in are now open to everyone, ”proclaims the viral content sometimes signed by a Marco Sentein.

Another alarming message begins with a "For info.

Check your accounts.

Ours were indeed modified!

".

This type of message has been actively circulating for a few days.

The rumor is also playing on recent attempts by the Facebook group app to modify its terms of use.

Contacted by Le Parisien, the American giant insists: “The parameters of your private life have not changed.

You and only you can modify them ”.

Technically impossible to join a group stealthily

Easy to transfer to a family or friendly group, the two texts insist above all on the dangerousness of this alleged modification.

“Its group settings include

everyone

by default so people you don't know can add you to a group without you ever knowing.

These can include crooks, loan sharks, etc., ”the message warns.

To be clear, it is technically impossible to join a group in a stealth way, without being invited to it and also to consult its content without being part of it.

But in order to support the point, a verification of the parameters is suggested but this manipulation is in fact based on a confidentiality option to block the inopportune addition to a group created two years ago ... by WhatsApp.

His goal ?

Avoid the spread of rumors by chain messages on massive groups.

Without panic, do not hesitate to check that this filtering of invitations to a group is indeed activated by default.

Source: leparis

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