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Thanks to WhatsApp, Thousands of users communicate with people from all over the world. However, through these accounts, the cybercriminals They can obtain sensitive information that they can take advantage of. For example, they can know where one is located through the Meta app. In this sense, it is important to take some measures to prevent any hacker take advantage and do data theft.
For it, WhatsApp incorporated a button special in its configuration that allows you to protect this data and prevent any cybercriminal from obtaining the location of the users. It’s about the protection of the IP address in calls, by which no one can know where you are connected. Below is everything you need to know to increase security in the application.
Next, the entire process to protect the IP address on calls by WhatsAppboth for devices Android as iPhone:
In that simple way, it will be difficult for people to deduce the user’s location and thus the calls will be transmitted securely through the WhatsApp servers. Likewise, it is worth clarifying that in this way the quality of the calls will be reduced, since they will not connect directly and the IP address will be avoided to be revealed to the person being called.
Anyway, the calls that are retransmitted through the servers of WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted. Therefore, it is not so easy for strangers to access them. The same applies for the chatswhich are protected so that no one outside can read them.
Within the advanced privacy settings in the Meta application, you can also find the option to disable the link previews, that is, showing the headline, header or photo of a URL that is shared. When activated, it makes it difficult for third-party websites to deduce the IP adress of the user. By enabling this option, you will only see the address of any web page, but no other information about it.
On their official site, WhatsApp suggests some measures that can be avoided to avoid the hacks and the data theft:
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