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WhatsApp's new privacy features: Here's everything you need to know

WhatsApp New Privacy features will be rolled out by the end of August. What are its key takeaways? How it would improve your experience? Here's everything you need to know

WhatsApp rolls out new privacy features
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WhatsApp rolls out new privacy features

Zuhair Zaidi Delhi
Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer, Meta Platforms, Inc. on August 9 introduced a new WhatsApp privacy initiative with three latest features. After the update, an user can restrict people from taking screenshots of a photo or video with the help of pre-existing “view-once” feature.

The new privacy features provide interlocking layers of security and better control over your information/messages on WhatsApp. While calls and messages on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, they have worked to improve performance and introduce new features like disappearing messages, end-to-end encrypted backups, blocking and reporting unwanted contacts, and two-step verification.

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