Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has
announced that WhatsApp Users will
now be able to exit groups with out
everyone in the group knowing. This is
part of new Privacy features introducing
by the Social Media Platform.
With the 'leave group silently' features
instead of notifying the full group when
leaving, only the admins will be notified.
This feature will start rolling out to all users
this month.
In addition to that, Zuckerberg said
WhatsApp Users Can also prevent people
from doing a screenshot of messages tagged
as 'view once'.
What they are saying
Announcing this vis his Facebook page today,
Zuckerberg Wrote: " new Privacy features
coming to WhatsApp; exit group chats with
out notifying Everyone, control who can see
when you are online, and prevent
screenshots on view once messages."
• "we'll keep building new ways to protect
your messages and keep them as private
and secure as face-to-face conversations."
He added.
• WhatsApp also issued a statement saying
that " seeing when friends or family are
online help Users feel connected to one
another, but everyone has had times when
they wanted to check their WhatsApp
privately. For the times you want to keep
your online presence private, WhatsApp is
introducing the ability to select who can and
can't see when you're online.
• on the 'view once messages' feature, it
noted that ' view once' is already an
incredibly popular way to share photos or
Media that don't need to have a permanent
digital record.
• "Now WhatsApp is enabling screenshot
blocking for view once messages for an
added layer of protection. This feature is
being tested and will be rolled out to Users
soon,"It said.
The company added that the introduction of
this new features is backed by a new
WhatsApp Privacy study which found that
72% of people value being able to speak in
an honest, unfiltered way, but more than
47% are only comfortable doing this in
safe, private space.
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