During the F8 Developer Conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally announced that WhatsApp will receive group voice and video calling features soon. At the moment, no details have been shared.
During the F8 Developer Conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally announced that WhatsApp will receive group voice and video calling features soon. At the moment, no details have been shared.
The company mentioned in a blog, “Voice and video calling are very popular on WhatsApp, and we’re excited to share that group calling will be coming in the months ahead. Stickers are also coming to WhatsApp soon.”
The new feature will reportedly allow four users to chat simultaneously. Users have already clocked in over 2 billion minutes of video and audio calls. WhatsApp will also support third-party stickers created by developers respectively.
Recently, reports stated that Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging service with over 200-million active users in India, might not be as secure as being claimed, with experts raising questions about certain provisions of the user agreement wherein most of its wrongdoings would go un-remedied and un-challenged.
WhatsApp, which has one billion users globally, is one of the most popular mediums of instant messaging in India. It was acquired by Facebook in 2014. "One-to-one communication between users is encrypted and may be as secure as WhatsApp claims. But the metadata, information about the calls, is likely being mined by the company," Vivek Wadhwa, a top American technology entrepreneur and academic, told PTI.
"WhatsApp has admitted that it is sharing information about identity and device information with Facebook, allowing it to do the dirty work in snooping on users.” What I found most worrisome is that WhatsApp's group chat feature allows any group member to mine data like Cambridge Analytica, and what is worse, they reveal mobile numbers. So people can be harassed off the platform," he said.
According to the terms of the agreement, a user in India agrees that they will resolve any claim they have with WhatsApp "relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with our Terms, us, or our Services (each, a 'Dispute', and together, 'Disputes') exclusively in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo county in California, and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such Disputes".
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