WhatsApp goes to extreme measures to ensure your privacy
A new security feature has been installed in the mobile messaging app, WhatsApp.
End-to-end encryption has been built into the latest version of this app, which means that a third party will not be able to read or intercept messages.
When a message is end-to-end encrypted, messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands.
WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption is only available when you and the people you message use the latest version of the app.
According to WhatsApp’s official site, many messaging applications only encrypt messages between the user and them, but WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you’re communicating with can read what is sent.
Nobody in between, not even WhatsApp, can read or intercept these messages.
This is because your messages are secured with a lock and only the recipient and you have the special key needed to unlock and read them.
For added protection, every message you send has its own unique lock and key.
All of this happens automatically; there is no need to turn on settings or set up special secret chats to secure your messages.
WhatsApp Calls, which lets you talk to your friends and family even in another country, are also end-to-end encrypted so that WhatsApp and third parties can’t listen to them.
WhatsApp also doesn’t store messages on its servers once they are delivered.
For more information, visit the Whatsapp site.
