WhatsApp ensures more security: does the screenshot warning notice come?

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WhatsApp introduces a new tick system that informs users about screenshots of their chats and improves data protection.

WhatsApp ensures more security: does the screenshot warning notice come?

WhatsApp, the popular messenger service, is planning a significant innovation to strengthen data protection. Soon, users will be informed when someone made a screenshot of their chats. This function is part of an extended checklight system that is supposed to create additional transparency, as is already reported by the news platform "Marca". WhatsApp is known for its existing tick system, which shows the news status: a gray check mark means sent, two gray boxes indicate the reception, and two blue checkmarks confirm reading the message. Now a third hook is introduced, which signals screenshots and enables users to understand the unauthorized storage of their news and to react to how it is also today.at is to be read.

New security standard in sight

The development team is optimistic that the innovation will further strengthen the privacy of users. The third hook is viewed as an additional security level, the use and storage of the chats is to make it transparent. This function is currently in the test phase and so far only Betanutsers is available. So far, no date is known from the official rollout for all users, but experts suspect that the introduction in the coming months could take place, such as kosmo.at reported.

With this improvement, WhatsApp wants to give users a feeling of control over their private communication. The specific details about the time of the release are still uncertain, but it becomes clear that WhatsApp focuses on the protection of the user private sphere and continuously tries to increase it.