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WaBetaInfo claimed that Meta-owned WhatsApp always safeguards its customers’ privacy and has revealed new security features to provide an additional layer of anonymity.
The new features include account protection, device verification, and automatic security codes, which would allow users to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and defend against mobile device infection, according to the app-tracking website.
The improvements, dubbed account security features, will be implemented in the app over the next few months. They will be made available to everyone in the future.
WhatsApp unveiled the new features while emphasizing the necessity of two-factor authentication and end-to-end encrypted backups. These can be turned on and off by the users.
Account protection, a new feature, is critical since it prevents unauthorized attempts to move WhatsApp accounts to another device. This would prevent hackers from gaining access to the accounts.
Users will be needed to verify their account from their previous device before moving it to a new device using this service.
The second feature is device verification, which prevents mobile device malware from sending unwanted messages using someone’s WhatsApp account.
 
“WhatsApp has added checks to authenticate user accounts in order to protect them if their device is compromised,” according to the app tracker.
The third element is security codes, which would make the entire verification procedure simpler and more accessible to users. The procedure would include key transparency, which would “allow users to automatically verify their secure connection when clicking on the encryption tab.”
These functionalities will be available for both Android and iOS devices. They may be available for beta testing soon.
Kevin Lewi, a Meta research scientist, highlighted the messaging app’s plans to implement key transparency in a Twitter thread.
WhatsApp values its users’ privacy, according to Lewi, adding that “we want to simultaneously keep a publicly-auditable log, but in a privacy-preserving way so that nothing is exposed – not even any metadata such as patterns of how often individuals update keys.”
