WhatsApp users will soon be able to lock and hide conversations, thanks to a new feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Calling it “one more layer of security”, Meta – WhatsApp’s parent company – added Chat Lock to protect “your most intimate conversations” and hide notifications from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of its privacy package, Meta allows WhatsApp users to encrypt their backups, block the ability to screenshot and make their messages disappear automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive officer, confirmed the new feature in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: “New locked chats in WhatsApp make your conversations more private. They’re hidden in a password protected folder and notifications won’t show sender or message content.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meta has criticized the Online Safety Bill, along with other companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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