![]() ![]() ![]() The second problem, says Bhuyan, is that your profile photo may remain visible on WhatsApp Web even after you’ve used the feature in the mobile app to restrict your photo to contacts only. In the WhatsApp mobile app, you can delete a photo from your device after sending it and the recipient will see only a blurred out version of the photo.īut Bhuyan reported that a photo sent from his mobile device and then deleted was still visible without the blurring in the web client.Īs WhatsApp noted in a 21 January 2015 blog post announcing the new service, WhatsApp Web “mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device,” and all messages “live on your phone.”īut since photos deleted from your phone are still showing up in the web client, we can infer that the mobile and web apps are not syncing properly. ![]() The problems with the web client, which were reported to us by Indrajeet Bhuyan, a 17-year-old security blogger, undermine privacy settings that work just fine on the WhatsApp mobile app.Īccording to Bhuyan, in some situations users of WhatsApp Web can see photos they’re not supposed to view and which they wouldn’t see on the mobile app. WhatsApp has just rolled out a new service called WhatsApp Web that allows users to sync the messaging app between their mobile devices and desktop, but the new web client has a couple of privacy pitfalls that show it’s not really ready for its close-up. ![]()
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