WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps worldwide. On the list of the ten most downloaded applications in the last decade WhatsApp ranks third. But now we want to take a closer look at WhatsApp spying.
Many of you know this. You – yes, you! You receive a message and don't reply straight away. The reason for this could be any number of things. You're eating, working, on the phone, or reading – or – between you and me – you just don't feel like it. But imagine the person you're talking to is a bit special and expects a reply immediately. What a disaster! But you can make it even worse. You go online, see the message, and go offline – RIP, huh? Let's assume the person you're talking to isn't just special, but a psycho. Well, that's where the app "Dasta -Tracker for WhatsApp" comes in.
Attention hobby stalkers
First of all – anyone who actually uses this application should take a deep look at their own state of mind – just a quick tip. Anyway. The application allows the user to track specific WhatsApp profiles around the clock – more precisely, the online times of any person, regardless of whether the person concerned knows the stalker or not – the phone number is completely sufficient. "Dasta -Tracker for WhatsApp" records and evaluates the online times of each person. The stalker can then read the online times precisely in a kind of statistics. But how does something like that work? Well, the app does exactly what some competing applications have done before it. It exploits a security vulnerability in WhatsApp itself. But the problem is not new; it has existed and been known in the popular messenger for years. This makes the attitude of the developers all the more annoying. This should have been improved long ago – but despite massive criticism, the problem has not been resolved and poses a real data protection problem. However, users can't do anything about it - since it's a bug in the system, WhatsApp users have to live with it or switch to another messenger.
Notice: Hiding your online time “last online” is of no use at all.
Whether Dasta violates data protection and can ultimately be banned remains an open question for now. This needs to be clarified through legal means - but the fact is that an update from WhatsApp is not in sight. (Photo by World Image / Bigstockphoto)
