The mobile messaging application allows users to configure their privacy and select who can see their latest connections
WhatsApp has made improvements to privacy for its users in recent years. From end-to-end encryption of the messages you send via chat to checking who can see your last connection and whether you are online or not.
In the latter case, the ability to select which people you want to know about this information not only provides privacy, but also contributes to the right to disconnect. WhatsApp has become the pre-eminent online messaging application and also a working tool. For example, you can use this application in your spare time without your bosses seeing that you are ‘available’.
Seeing the last connection time can be a control mechanism, for example from parents investigating what time their children connected when they should be sleeping or from possessive couples checking when their partner was last online and if they were online. whether or not they have responded to the messages sent to them.
To hide the ‘online’ status in WhatsApp, you must first go to the settings or configuration section of the application. Once there, if you have an Android phone, you’ll need to select the “Account” section, then “Privacy.” Instead, in iOS you have to go directly to ‘Privacy’.
Here you will be the first to see who can see your personal information. There you will find the ‘Last seen time’ and the ‘Online’. When you select it, you’ll see several options pop up: let everyone see your last time, let only your contacts see it, let your contacts see it except those you select, or let no one see it.
Depending on the option you select, it affects who can see when you’re online. Why? WhatsApp only offers two options: that the whole world can see that you’re online or that the same people who have access to your last connection can see it. So if you don’t want anyone to see that you’re ‘online’, you must select that you also don’t want anyone to see you ‘last time’.
Of course, WhatsApp remembers that if you don’t share the information in these sections, you won’t be able to see other people’s.
Hiding your last connection time or “online” isn’t the only way to protect your privacy on WhatsApp.
1. End-to-end encrypted messages
2. Two-Step Verification. This way you protect your WhatsApp profile against cybercriminals and hackers who try to use or steal your phone number.
3. Temporary messages. Like Instagram stories, WhatsApp allows you to configure the duration of the messages you send (including the photos). These can disappear in 24 hours, seven or 90 days.
4. Block and report those users from whom you do not want to receive messages or calls.
5. Decide who you show your profile picture to.
6. Select who can see your WhatsApp statuses.
7. Quietly leave groups without sending a notification.
Source: La Verdad
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