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This Thursday (22), WhatsApp announced a series of news for its Business platform, aimed at commercial and corporate use. However, among so many new features, one of them ended up going unnoticed and was not even mentioned in the official statement of the application itself: it will soon begin to warn you if you are in a message that is not protected with end-to-end encryption. .
Matt Idema, WhatsApp’s chief operating officer, gave the information during an interview quoted by Reuters. According to the executive, when talking to a company that is using the new hosting services (and in this way, possibly stores the chat history elsewhere outside the application servers), the business end user will be notified that protection encryption may not be available.
Today, by default, each and every message exchanged between WhatsApp users is protected by encryption. However, there are already several professional tools that mediate the process of managing a corporate WhatsApp Business profile – companies that adopt this type of solution may end up sacrificing the messenger protection infrastructure by placing one more point in the communication medium. .
With the new hosting features, this is likely to become more common, hence the benefit of having a notification about the security level of the conversation. THE Canaltech has contacted WhatsApp to confirm how these new alerts will work and we will update this story as soon as we have a response.
Source: Reuters
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