TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.-Facebook, How are you and even Instagram, have been somehow in the midst of controversy over privacy issues.
WhatsApp belongs to Facebook so both can be affected by the same issue: more privacy issues than you know.
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Uninstall How are you from time to time it can be a very good practice if you are one of those who seek to safeguard your security on the net, and we will explain why.
The reason you should uninstall
Recent research has revealed that, despite the encryption of WhatsApp conversations, they leave a trace on our smartphone, and can be accessed without too much trouble. Jonathan Zdziarski, expert in cybersecurity, to state that even though we delete the conversations, the record of the same is not deleted from the original database, which leaves recorded a content that could be accessed in an attack, reports BBC.
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In practice, encryption is just a word that describes the difficulty of accessing WhatsApp conversations, but the chances of doing so are increasing, says Richard Cassidy, a cybersecurity expert.
By accessing this content, you could recover much of the files we allegedly deleted, or even rebuild the content through the waste that is stored in the WhatsApp log.
A weak point in the security of the application that could lead to another massive data leak scandal, such as the one that affected more than 6.8 million users just a few days ago on Facebook.
How to protect your WhatsApp record
In the opinion of experts, there is only one way to delete this trace from your phone and our PC, and it is as simple as uninstalling How are you Occasionally. By doing so, all these temporary files that allowed access to the conversations disappear, so uninstalling the application with some frequency, would ensure that at least we do not have full access to our chats.
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On the other hand, and despite the problem that this may pose in terms of the practicality of the app, they recommend disabling the backups in the cloud, so that when deleting the application there is no trace of the data that was in the same.
The latest scandals increase distrust of the company, which is going through its worst moment in terms of image, and will have to work hard in this regard to avoid the loss of millions of users it has been experiencing since a few years ago.