WhatsApp banned 74 lakh Indian accounts throughout the month of April as a part of preventive actions to fight abuse on its platform. Whereas delving into the small print, the WhatsApp spokesperson added that round 24 lakh accounts have been banned as a part of proactive measures and weren’t based mostly on any reviews from the customers of the social media platform.
The small print have been revealed within the Month-to-month Report filed by the corporate as a part of Info Expertise Guidelines 2021.
“In accordance with the IT Guidelines 2021, we’ve revealed our report for the month of April 2023. This user-safety report incorporates particulars of the consumer complaints acquired and the corresponding motion taken by WhatsApp, in addition to WhatsApp’s personal preventive actions to fight abuse on our platform. As captured within the newest Month-to-month Report, WhatsApp banned over 7.4 million accounts within the month of April and over 2.4 million of those accounts have been proactively banned, earlier than any reviews from customers,” a WhatsApp spokesperson mentioned in accordance with information company ANI.
New privateness options supplied by WhatsApp
In the meantime, in its bid to make sure extra privateness for its customers, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg lately unveiled a brand new WhatsApp characteristic referred to as ‘Chat Lock’ which ensures safer chats with chosen customers. The characteristic permits the customers to safe most intimate conversations in a separate folder with passwords.
When somebody messages you and the chat is locked, the content material of the messages and sender particulars will stay hidden till the passwords for the chosen chats are entered.
“We’re excited to deliver to you a new feature we’re calling Chat Lock, which helps you to defend your most intimate conversations behind another layer of safety,” Mark Zuckerberg mentioned whereas saying the characteristic.
“Locking a chat takes that thread out of the inbox and places it behind its personal folder that may solely be accessed along with your gadget password or biometric, like a fingerprint. It additionally robotically hides the contents of that chat in notifications too,” he added.
(With company inputs)
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