The information which the writer says is somehow available unintentionally to my contacts is pretty much the information I provide freely to my contacts, e.g. my profile picture, status.
Okay my online/offline status, if I set that to hidden, fair enough, they should fix that, but I'm just a bit confused about the other bits.
Agreed. Telling the world I'm online on WhatsApp is little more than telling them I've got a mobile phone. This proof of concept doesn't know who I'm talking with, what I'm saying, my location or any other personal information, so I don't really care.
I'm a law-abiding middle-class white Western male, so I don't want to assume that my flippancy should be shared by everyone. So, who should be worried by what the OP is saying?
It's not clear from the article whether the data is available to the world, or only to my contacts. If it's public, that's worse, but, while it's not good to leak 'private' information, I've seen a lot worse.
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I'm confused about what is being leaked here.
The information which the writer says is somehow available unintentionally to my contacts is pretty much the information I provide freely to my contacts, e.g. my profile picture, status.
Okay my online/offline status, if I set that to hidden, fair enough, they should fix that, but I'm just a bit confused about the other bits.
Agreed. Telling the world I'm online on WhatsApp is little more than telling them I've got a mobile phone. This proof of concept doesn't know who I'm talking with, what I'm saying, my location or any other personal information, so I don't really care.
I'm a law-abiding middle-class white Western male, so I don't want to assume that my flippancy should be shared by everyone. So, who should be worried by what the OP is saying?
It's not clear from the article whether the data is available to the world, or only to my contacts. If it's public, that's worse, but, while it's not good to leak 'private' information, I've seen a lot worse.