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Users will get the
option to select who may view their online status, exit group discussions in
silence, and prohibit screenshots on View Once messages.
This will help
make WhatsApp chat "as private and secure as face-to-face
interactions," according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
This month, the
features will start to be released, and a worldwide campaign will be launched,
beginning in the UK, to showcase them.
The well-known
messaging software now notifies all participants in a group conversation when
someone leaves or is deleted by default.
While it is
possible to prevent this for certain group conversations, when users choose to
"exit group", they are not given the option to depart quietly,
which may lead to discomfort, humiliation, or drama for those attempting to go
unobserved.
Users will now be able to exit group chats without telling the other participants only the group administrators will be informed thanks to recent adjustments.
Product head Ami
Vora said it was part of the platform’s focus on “building product features
that empower people to have more control and privacy over their messages”.
The update will also provide users the opportunity to match their online status choices with "last seen" settings by giving them the choice of letting just certain contacts or no one see when they are active on the network.
Janis Wong, research associate
at The Alan Turing Institute, told BBC News: “It’s always nice to give users
more control; users like, and need to have, more control.”
However, she warned that the features' influence could be limited unless users are encouraged to utilise them or are properly informed about them in the app.
“If it’s not default, or if users aren’t prompted to reconsider their options, then it’s not necessarily very useful – if users aren’t aware this is something that they can do”, she said.
Source:
ghananews.hrforum.uk
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