'Unacceptable' WhatsApp privacy breach controversy: Explained
A recent alleged WhatsApp Privacy Breach has caused concerns for billions of users worldwide. It caused billionaire Elon Musk, India's Union Minister of State for Electronics and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and other influential figures to react. Notably, India is WhatsApp's largest market with 487 million users, according to Statista. But this recent privacy breach has put the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company under the spotlight again.
The incident that sparked the global furore occurred when a Twitter engineer on the messaging platform revealed that the microphone on his Google Pixel 7 Pro smartphone was live and tracking him.
Because of the growing privacy concerns about WhatsApp, know the details of what happened.
Foad Dabiri, an engineer working at Twitter recently shared screenshots on the social media platform, claiming that WhatsApp had accessed the microphone on his Google Pixel 7 Pro several times while he was asleep.
“WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM (and that's just a part of the timeline!) What's going on?”, Dabiri tweeted. The screenshot showed the microphone being accessed by WhatsApp at least 9 times between 4:20 AM and 6:53 AM.
How big the controversy is is clear from the fact that his tweet has amassed over 88.5 million views and 6812 retweets, with people sharing similar concerns about WhatsApp's alleged privacy breach.
WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM (and that's just a part of the timeline!) What's going on? pic.twitter.com/pNIfe4VlHV
Amidst growing privacy concerns since Dabiri tweeted about the alleged privacy breach, WhatsApp swiftly responded to the incident,
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