WhatsApp is a trendiest messenger that every young and aged person uses to send instant messages, videos or media files to one another. After end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp users started believing as their chats are purely safe. So, if you are also thinking the same way, then here is something that can affect you somehow.
As per a recent update, it has come to know that the famous instant messenger app – WhatsApp – is not deleting the chats permanently. However, this messenger retains or stores the chat logs when users delete them, says Jonathan Zdziarski – an iOS researcher. While examining disk pictures which were taken from the latest version of an app, he found that WhatsApp is retaining and storing the forensic traces of chat logs, even when chats get deleted. It is such a critical matter of concern for a user who clears the chat due to privacy issues considering it is removed permanently. Though the deleted chat can only be retrieved by the ones having physical access to that device and there is no recovering from data from remote systems.
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