Los Angeles United States.- Share itOne applications The world's most used messaging service is working on a new initiative aimed at strengthening the privacy of its users.
According to WABetaInfo's report on WhatsApp beta version 2.24.4.25, the company is rolling out a feature that prevents other users, including contacts, from taking screenshots of the image. profile of a user.
Currently, WhatsApp allows users to hide their profile picture and control who can see it through privacy options like “Everyone”, “Nobody”, “My Contacts” and the ability to hide it from selected people in the list of contacts.
However, this new feature goes further by seriously restricting the ability to take profile picture screenshots.
While this feature is not yet widely available and appears to be part of a limited implementation in beta, it points to improvements in user privacy.
However, it should be noted that this restriction does not prevent the use of external cameras to capture the image or save the visual image of the contact via WhatsApp Web.
Additionally, other messaging apps like Telegram and Signal have different approaches to protecting your profile picture.
While Telegram lets users control who can see their profile picture from privacy and security settings, Signal doesn't let people save their screenshots directly, although they can still take screenshots.
