WhatsApp will allow users to lock and hide conversations, Meta announces – Sky News

WhatsApp users will soon be able to lock and hide conversations, thanks to a new feature.Chat Lock will remove a chat thread from the app’s regular onscreen inbox and place it into a new folder that can only be opened by a password or biometric, such as facial recognition or a fingerprint. Calling it “one more layer of security”, Meta – WhatsApp’s parent company – added Chat Lock will protect “your most intimate conversations” and hide notifications from them.It’s the latest in a list of growing features on the globally-used, encrypted messaging service which puts it at odds with the UK government’s online safety bill.Read more: Why the Online Safety Bill is proving so controversial Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Love Island star: ‘My DMs are scary’ Meta has criticised the bill, along with other companies.It says the law change would undermine end-to-end encryption – a level of security for messages which means nobody other than the users involved in the conversation is able to see its content. The company has previously warned it would sooner see British users stopped from using its services than risk compromising their privacy.The government has insisted it would not
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