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Many Whatsapp Web Users Mobile Numbers are on Google Search
Today, cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia has shared few screenshots where personal mobile numbers of Whatsapp Web users are found on Google Search. The researcher has shared the picture with IANS and told, Earlier this week, private group chat links were available on Google Search, to which WhatsApp said, it has asked to google not to list such chats on Google search. And has also warned the users not to share links that can be accessible publicly on websites. The links which were indexed by Google were of a private chat group, which means anyone can join any private chat group by just searching it. However, now the Whatsapp group chat links are removed. And now Google has indexed Mobile numbers of Whatsapp Web users. The researcher Rajshekhar said, Issues with Whatsapp came up last year in February when Google had results around 470,000 for a search of “chat.whatsapp.com”. This issue was found by Jane Wong who is an app reverse-engineer. However, as per the reports, the personal mobile numbers of Whatsapp Web users is done by Whatsapp or Google, which is still not known. If you know, Whatsapp is changing its privacy policy and the users will have to agree and accept it, if not they might lose their account.
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