Elon Musk says that WhatsApp cannot be trusted after a Twitter engineer claimed that the instant messaging app had been using his microphone in the background while he was sleeping. The twitter engineer named Foad dabiri , also shared the screenshot of whatsapp using his microphone at the time he was sleeping The tweet also earned a reply from Elon Musk, who wrote, ‘WhatsApp cannot be trusted’
WHATSAPP CLARIFICATION
WhatsApp, in a tweet, clarified the situation and wrote that the issue was arising due to a bug in android that ‘mis-attributes information in their privacy dashboard’. The phone that the user had was Google Pixel and WhatsApp says that they have asked Google to investigate the matter and provide a remedy. In another tweet, WhatsApp added that its users have ‘full control’ over their microphone settings and that the mic can be accessed only when a user is making a call or is recording a voice note or video.
Moreover they also claim that it was some kind of android bug in the system and they want google to look into the matter .
*ELON MUSK BRINGING THE WHATSAPP LIKE FEATURE TO TWITTER *.
Going forward, Twitter users will soon be able to reply to any message in Twitter threads via DMs and can also respond with ‘any emoji’. That is not all, users will also be able to make voice calls and video calls via Twitter, something similar to what WhatsApp allows.
Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.”
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