A security error in WhatsApp could reveal our location
The application of WhatsApp, in its version for the operating system Android , is not exempt from regularly starring in news related to security failures The most recent of these news has come to light this week, and we has made it known that WhatsApp could suffer a serious security problem related to the location of the users.Apparently, when we share our location with one of our friends, said location is not saved in an encrypted way so that any friend from outside could access it without major complications.
This security breach poses serious privacy risks Unlike our conversations, which are fully encrypted, our location is exposed to any user who is knowledgeable enough to intercept it at the time we share it. Although it is true that it is not a failure that exposes our location to everyone, this type of failure can pose many risks if they are not solved effectively.
Luckily, the developers of WhatsApp are accustomed to solving any security problem that occurs in their application relatively quickly.The web version of this application (that is, the version that we can download from the official link: http://www.whatsapp.com/android/) is already It has corrected the location error. This version of the application is not yet available on Google Play, so it is recommended that all users accustomed to sharing their location through WhatsApp download and install the web version in your terminal.
If we take a look back in time, we will see that the last great controversy of WhatsApp has been its purchase by the network social Facebook As soon as the news was released, many users considered the future of the application considering that their purchase had been made for a huge sum of money that, one way or another, Facebook would like to get back.This led to theories appearing, such as that WhatsApp would have ads or, even more alarming if possible, that WhatsApp would now require identification with an account of Facebook
Luckily for the users of this application, all these theories have not been fulfilled and everything indicates that they will not be fulfilled either in the future. The great business of buying WhatsApp resides in the enormous amount of information that has acquired Facebookby getting hold of this app. And, precisely, we must not forget that we are talking about a social network that already has a spectacular amount of data related to the habits, life and tastes of hundreds of millions of people around the world. If we add to this the telephone number of each one of these people, it could practically be said that the users become completely controlled by the social network.
