WhatsApp now lets you hide your messages from prying eyes. But is Chat Lock a cheaters' charter?

Name: Chat Lock.Age: The Chat Lock feature on WhatsApp is new. Cheating, by contrast, has been going on since Venus was carrying on with Mars behind Vulcan’s back, and probably long before that.A new WhatsApp feature? Exciting! What does it do? And what has it got to do with cheating? One at a time, please. The new feature means you can hide conversations.How? You tap on a group or a one-to-one chat, then enter a password or a biometric, like a fingerprint, to lock it – it’s for your eyes only. The contents of that chat are also hidden in notifications.And why? “We think this feature will be great for people who have reason to share their phones from time to time with a family member or those moments where someone else is holding your phone at the exact moment an extra-special chat arrives,” a WhatsApp blogpost explained.Mmm, “extra-special chat”. What could that be about, I wonder? Is this more Elon interference, fooling around with his new toy? Wrong one. WhatsApp is owned by Meta – Mark Zuckerberg’s your man.What’s he saying? So, Zuckerberg posted – on Facebook, obviously – about the new feature, with a helpful picture showing examples
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