WhatsApp has consistently enhancing its security measures to protect user privacy and data. The WhatsApp already uses end-to-end encryption for personal messages to keep users content confidential between the sender and receiver.
WhatsApp has recently introduce many features to strengthen account security, including “silence unknown callers,” “chat lock,” and many more.
So, despite all the improvements, the WhatsApp remains a prime target for hackers, and hence, WhatsApp keeps its development team busy with creating more features.
As per reports, WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will allow users to use their email address for account verification.
According to reports, WhatsApp will keep this email verification feature optional.
If turn on, WhatsApp will ask for your email address to protect and verify your account.
As of now, the feature is still under development, and there is limited information available about the specific situations in which the email address will be useful to enhance the security of WhatsApp accounts.
So, it could help users verify their accounts in certain unspecified situations.
If a phone gets stolen or users lose access to their phone number link with WhatsApp, the email verification will help them access and log in to their account.
It can also be useful when setting up WhatsApp on a new device, but the verification code is not coming due to server or network issues.
It’s important to note that this feature will be optional and different from the one that asks for your email address when configuring the two-step verification.
This feature is currently under development and is expect to be release in future updates of the app.
WhatsApp has release its monthly report for June 2023.
The report highlights the grievances the platform receive during the following month and how it dealt with them accordingly.
According to the report, WhatsApp banned 6,611,700 accounts of Indian users between 1st to 30th June, 2023.
And most of the accounts were ban after receiving reports from users, the report specifies that it proactively ban 2,434,200 accounts even before receiving any reports from users.
WhatsApp releases its monthly users safety report every month in accordance with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
This report provides details of WhatsApp’s actions in response to various factors:
- Grievances receive from users in India through the grievance mechanisms of WhatsApp.
- Accounts act upon in India using WhatsApp’s prevention and detection methods due to violations of Indian laws or WhatsApp’s Terms of Service.
- Orders receive from the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC).
