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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Meta has announced new privacy features for WhatsApp users.<\/p>\n

Users will be able to leave group chats silently, control who can see their online status and block screenshots on View Once messages.<\/p>\n

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said this would help keep WhatsApp messaging \u201cas private and secure as face-to-face conversations\u201d.<\/p>\n

It will begin rolling out the features this month, highlighting them in a global campaign, starting in the UK.<\/p>\n

Leave silently<\/b><\/p>\n

The popular messaging app currently alerts all members of a group chat to someone leaving or being removed by default.<\/p>\n

And while there are ways to disable this for individual group chats, the option to leave silently is not presented to users when they choose to \u201cexit group\u201d \u2013 sometimes causing awkwardness, embarrassment or drama for those trying to leave unnoticed.<\/p>\n

But now, they will be able to leave without notifying all other group chat users, only group admins.<\/p>\n

Product head Ami Vora said it was part of the platform\u2019s focus on \u201cbuilding product features that empower people to have more control and privacy over their messages\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe WhatsApp is the most secure place to have a private conversation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo other global messaging service at this scale provides this level of security for their users\u2019 messages, media, voice messages, video calls, and chat back-ups.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will also see users given the option to allow only certain contacts \u2013 or no-one \u2013 to see when they are active on the platform, bringing online status options into alignment with \u201clast seen\u201d settings.<\/p>\n

Janis Wong, research associate at The Alan Turing Institute, told BBC News: \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to give users more control \u2013 users like and need to have more control.\u201d<\/p>\n

But unless users were prompted to use the features or made fully aware of them in the app, their impact could be limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s not default, or if users aren\u2019t prompted to reconsider their options, then it\u2019s not necessarily very useful, if users aren\u2019t aware this is something that they can do,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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