WhatsApp it has a very important secret that scared many of the people who are active within the messaging platform, and that to a very large extent quite rightly, although the reality is different. More precisely, after WhatsApp updated its terms and conditions of use of the messaging platform, and announced that it was making a series of important changes, mandatory for people, a real scandal started regarding the data it collects.
WhatsApp she began to be accused by many of wanting to access people's messages, to monitor their locations, and more recently, of wanting to steal their fingerprints and pictures of girls. This last accusation is related to a new function for WhatsApp that allows the interconnection of the application for phones with WhatsApp Web using biometric authentication systems in smartphones, i.e. fingerprint scanning and facial recognition.
WhatsApp: THE SECRET THAT SCARED A LOT OF PEOPLE
WhatsApp has always explained, because it has long been offering functions based on biometric authentication systems, the fact that our fingerprints, or the faces scanned through these systems, never reach it. Those at WhatsApp have implemented in their applications only APIs available at the level of the iOS and Android operating systems, facilitating the use of data stored in secure areas of the operating systems to provide access to the functions that are protected with their help.
WhatsApp it never actually sees the data, the operating system being the one that does all the "work", and the company's application only receives the acceptance of unlocking, or not, direct access from iOS or Android. Basically WhatsApp has no way to steal images of our sarcastic fingerprints, but as far as the girls are concerned, those who complain probably forget about the pictures of their girls sent to various people, the stories in the Status function, the video clips, or the video calls.
WhatsApp it does not need any information regarding facial recognition because the pictures and video clips that we send to other people pass through its servers, so the fear regarding biometric authentication systems is unjustified.
