Privacy continues to be one of the main points of conflict between tablet and smartphone users and manufacturers but also application developers. Although in some of these tools it is necessary to collect personal information to be able to access some of its functions, the reality is that a significant number of them use them to bombard the public with advertising content according to their tastes or also, so that third companies and organizations can use it.
During these months we have told you more about the efforts of Whatsapp for trying to improve the services it offers to more than 1.300 million people, but which, nevertheless, are being subjected to many criticisms precisely due to the fact that the privacy of users is in question. Next we will tell you more about the latest novelty that it could incorporate and that once again, will unleash the controversy.
The update
In the coming months, we could see how when opening the individual chats of the application, we are shown the location of the people we are talking to. According to the WABetaInfo portal, this change would currently be in the testing phase and would be added to another function that was already talked about a lot a few months ago and that would allow obtaining the exact position of the members of the group chats.
WhatsApp's point of view
The developers of the platform assure that this measure does not have any negative effect on users, rather the opposite, since they affirm that through this feature, would facilitate the search and location of our friends or family in case we meet at large events or when organizing plans. However, many do not see it that way and consider it as another violation of their privacy.
Rectification
It has also been confirmed that, in case this feature went ahead and was among the news of the next updates, there would be the possibility of activating it and deactivating it at will. At first, it would be disabled by default. However, this has also generated mistrust. What do you think? Do you think that this and other changes that we have mentioned in recent months will be beneficial for both parties? Will there be a migration to other messaging platforms that apparently take more care of security and privacy? You have available more information related to all these benefits so that you can give your own opinion.