New Delhi: WhatsApp on Wednesday announced a major change in its privacy settings, allowing users to decide who can add them to groups. Previously, any user could be added to a WhatsApp group without their consent.
Over 200 million people in India currently use WhatsApp.
“WhatsApp groups continue to connect family, friends, coworkers, classmates and more. As people turn to groups for important conversations, users have asked for more control over their experience. Today, we're introducing a new privacy setting and invite system to help you decide who can add you to groups," WhatsApp said in a blog post.
Users can enable the privacy setting choice by going to account, and then privacy and group and select one of the three options — Nobody, My Contacts, or Everyone. 'Nobody’ signifies that anyone can add that user to any group, In case of ‘My Contacts’, only people in the user's address book can his/her to groups. In those cases, the person inviting the user to a group will be prompted to send a private invite through an individual chat, giving him/her the choice of joining the group. The invite will expire in three days.
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