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whatsapp, the most widely used instant messaging app in the world, will implement one of the most anticipated features to improve its users’ privacy from shady agents. The app will ask us if we want to share our phone number when communicating with certain commercial accounts such as chatbots or corporate accounts.
The integration of this new option has been notified WABetaInformationwhich highlights that it is already available in beta version 2.22.18.12 whatsapp. It was previously known that the option to share your number or not would be part of the new feature. communities app, but we now know that we may not share this data with business accounts.
WhatsApp will bring a new level of privacy
It is known that one of the features whatsapp is that whenever we communicate with someone through the platform, we end up revealing our phone number because, unlike Telegramthis application does not allow us to share our contact via id or any other credentials as identification.
For this reason, the app is trying to implement new privacy filters for its users. As mentioned, the new feature communities includes a configuration to allow group members to see or not see members’ phone numbers. With this option, this data will be hidden by default unless the administrator changes it.
Regarding the feature introduced in the beta whatsappevery time we contact a business or store account on the app, a notification will appear asking if we want to share our phone number when starting a conversation, indicating that the business will have the option to add us to their agenda.
Valuable privacy option in WhatsApp
This feature comes at a crucial moment for Programs considering that often users are prevented from starting a conversation with a company or business due to distrust or fear of what they can do with their phone number.
However, it is likely that the option to hide our phone number will not appear in the regular client. whatsapp soon because it’s only available in beta for now.
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