Do you use WhatsApp and want to protect yourself from third-party user surveillance? Then you should definitely check your data protection settings and adjust them if necessary.
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Actually, only your own WhatsApp friends should see it: personal information such as your profile picture, status messages and the last time you were online.
To ensure that your private WhatsApp information remains private and that strangers cannot monitor you unnoticed, there is only one thing that helps: check your data protection settings! The only way to prevent your personal user information from being spied on is to hide all data in WhatsApp's data protection settings.
WhatsApp data protection deficiency: How can I protect myself?
With these steps you can check and prevent third parties from spying on personal user data:
- Go to the menu in your WhatsApp application. On Android devices, this feature is located at the top right of the display.
- Settings menu item .
- Account settings option for additional choices.
- Under Data Protection you can now specify who can see your personal information.
- Under Last Online , Profile Picture and Info you can choose between visibility for everyone ( Everyone ), only for your contacts ( My Contacts ) or only for yourself ( Nobody ). For status you can choose between My contacts , My contacts except... and Only share with...
- To prevent unwanted reading by third parties, always select the setting Nobody or at least My Contacts (or reduce the status to individual contacts).
You can see where you can find the individual setting items in the WhatsApp menu on Android devices in the video:
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