WhatsApp will save your recently shared locations
Users who are most jealous of their intimacy and privacy may no longer want to use the messaging application WhatsApp after the last known information about this service. And it is that WhatsApp would be working on a new function aimed at share in a more simple and direct way the last user's locations Something that will not alert anyone at first, but it will alert those who understand this function as a collection and saving of the locations in which the user has beenAll the more reason to be suspicious if WhatsApp is adding new features or reducing user privacy.
As often happens in recent weeks, this information transcends from the service of company translations A service in whichvolunteer users translate phrases, buttons and texts that will come to the application in future updates, giving hints of these new features that they will bring with them. In this case it will be the locations or recent places, of which no more information is revealed, but which could jeopardize another aspect of the user's privacy in This application.
The translation lines only offer two words: Recent Locations, without a line of text explaining where this function will be displayed. However, between the lines it is possible to understand that these data will be those that the user himself has recently shared through a chat or conversation, and that they will keep in theapplication memory (if not on your servers) for faster and more agile next use.Of course, for this, WhatsApp will have to keep these coordinates to be able to resend them quickly, if the operation of this new function is confirmed.
Thus, it seems that the messaging application will be able to collect detailed information from the place from which the user shares his location. Of course, it remains to be seen if this function will really work in this way, and if WhatsApp will have access to this data, or will only be stored on the device to be able to re-share them quickly, without anyone else being able to see them. However, when there is a location record, the loser is usually the user's privacyAnd it is that, in some case of information theft, it is possible to find a way to rescue these supposed data from the terminal, as long as protection and security barriers are not applied.
At the moment we just have to wait for the next WhatsApp updates for the different mobile platforms for which it is available, without it being known still a specific date or if this Recent Locations function will finally be included in them. If so, you will have to ask WhatsApp if you will have access to this data from places visited by the user, and how you will manage and protect them.
Do not lose sight of the fact that sharing your current location is a voluntary act by which the user decides to indicate their more or less exact position. However, containing the data of the areas through which users move can be beneficial for WhatsApp or for other related companies such as Facebook, who will be able to launch personalized advertising campaigns or learn behavior patterns of their potential customers.
