{"id":77300,"date":"2018-03-31T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/your-whatsapp-buddies-might-be-spying-on-you-with-this-invasive-new-app-update"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:12:59","slug":"your-whatsapp-buddies-might-be-spying-on-you-with-this-invasive-new-app-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/your-whatsapp-buddies-might-be-spying-on-you-with-this-invasive-new-app-update","title":{"rendered":"Your WhatsApp buddies might be spying on you with this invasive new app (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-whatsapp-buddies-might-be-spying-on-you-with-this-invasive-new-app-update.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you rely on <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/whatsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read more about WhatsApp.\">WhatsApp<\/a> to message friends and family, it\u2019s important to know that the service lets your contacts know about when you\u2019re available to chat, and whether you\u2019ve read their texts.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all: <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/see-which-of-your-whatsapp-contacts-have-been-chatting-1824149613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lifehacker has spotted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chatwatch.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chatwatch<\/a>, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/chatwatch\/id1358519111?l=es&ls=1&mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iOS app<\/a> that uses WhatsApp\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/security\/2017\/10\/10\/whatsapp-online-status-exploit-spy\/\">public online\/offline status feature<\/a> to tell users how often their friends check the app, and estimate when they go to bed each day; it can even correlate data on two contacts you choose to guess if they\u2019ve been talking to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there\u2019s no need to give anyone that sort of ammo. I prefer to maintain a low profile on messaging services so I can chat and respond on my own terms, so it\u2019s rather alarming to know that my contacts can keep tabs on me this way.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2018\/03\/29\/your-whatsapp-buddies-might-be-spying-on-you-with-this-invasive-new-app\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apps\/2018\/03\/29\/your-whatsapp-buddies...e-new-app\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you rely on WhatsApp to message friends and family, it\u2019s important to know that the service lets your contacts know about when you\u2019re available to chat, and whether you\u2019ve read their texts. That\u2019s not all: Lifehacker has spotted Chatwatch, a new iOS app that uses WhatsApp\u2019s public online\/offline status feature to tell users how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77440,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77300\/revisions\/77440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}