Whatsapp initiated its view-once feature back in 2021 allowing people to send videos, pictures, and voice notes to be only seen one time. The feature is so advanced in protecting user privacy that a screenshot nor a screen recording will work to save the media file.
However, Tal Beery, a security researcher working on the Whatsapp privacy issues found a bug that allows users to save and capture a copy of the picture which is sent through the view-once feature.
To further criticize WhatsApp regarding this bug, Tal Beery mentioned in his blog that the only thing worse than no privacy is thinking you have it when you don’t. Believing your conversations are secure, only to find out they aren’t, creates a false sense of safety—an illusion more dangerous than having no privacy at all.
In response to to these slanders by Beery and other security researchers like WhatsApp took it to the public and assured that they are in the process of making new updates that will remove the bug and resolve privacy concerns and guided the users to send view-once feature to only those people who they can trust.
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