Update (24/02/2020, 7:00 PM IST): Initially, it seemed that WhatsApp didn’t give users even a single ray of hope after their private chats ended up on Google Search and on other search engines as well.
But according to an update posted by Jane Wong, the company was working quietly behind the curtain. Now, making a search for the said private chat invite links on Google brings nothing but an error message. Whatsapp has delisted the invitation links from Google by including the “noindex” meta tag.
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Google is indexing the invitations to the WhatsApp Group chats, including the links to join private groups as reported by Vice. As a result, the links are available for people all around the globe to join any discoverable group.
Your WhatsApp groups may not be as secure as you think they are.
The "Invite to Group via Link" feature allows groups to be indexed by Google and they are generally available across the internet. With some wildcard search terms you can easily find some… interesting… groups. pic.twitter.com/hbDlyN6g3q
— Jordan Wildon (@JordanWildon) February 21, 2020
Multimedia journalist Jordan Wildon tweeted and raised a question over WhatsApp’s security. He said that Whats ..
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