WhatsApp is the most used messaging application on the planet, with over 1.3 billion users worldwide, but unfortunately it is far from perfect, as many of you probably already know. WhatsApp has various operational problems discovered so far, and today we are talking about a new one, which already annoys millions of people around the world, and you will probably be upset when you find out what it is.
WhatsApp has implemented a function that allows blocking contacts so that they cannot see our profile picture, or when we last accessed the platform to chat with various people. Although theoretically this function should be without problems, well it seems that sometimes contacts blocked in WhatsApp can see our profile picture and when we were last active on the platform, something that should not happen.
WhatsApp: THE BIG PROBLEM THAT ANNOUNCES MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
It looks blocked contacts might sometimes be able to see your profile picture and last seen. It really seems a server side bug.
I recommend you to remove the blocked contact from your Address Book, to configure Privacy Settings on "My Contacts" and mute the blocked contact's chat- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) May 23, 2018
WhatsApp does not hide, in practice, this information of ours from people who should not see it, and the problem seems to be located on the servers of the American company, and not on the application for iPhone or Android. For now, WhatsApp has not confirmed that they are aware of this problem and that they are trying to solve it, but it is very possible that the company's engineers are investigating the cause of this defect that users do not know about.
WhatsApp should keep unwanted people away, but it seems that the application does not really want to secure our privacy, on the contrary, it seems willing to display to various third parties information that should not be public to them. The problem is also dangerous in the context in which the EU has strengthened the rules regarding the use of user data, so it is very possible that a future update of WhatsApp will solve this problem for everyone.