WhatsApp Users Beware; Apps Can Track Your Activity

Messaging platform WhatsApp is specially focused on users’ privacy and safety. The company has, time and again, also held firm on keeping its encryption confidential, despite pressure from governments. But there are certain apps that can still track WhatsApp user data by using rather simple methods that don’t need to break into WhatsApp’s safety. These apps easily available for free on Google Play Store and Apple App Store that can track a user’s activity on WhatsApp like who they’re talking to, when they’re sleeping, and when they’re using WhatsApp on their phone.

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These ‘stalking’ apps use the online signaling feature in WhatsApp that shows when a user is online. Now, it might seem like an insignificant piece of information, but  reports says that harvesting this data for days and weeks allows these outside apps to aggregate and build detailed profiles of WhatsApp users’ activity and communication.

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