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TECH T@LK

Mark Zuckerberg launches ‘Chat Lock’ feature on

WhatsApp to protect conversations

M eta founder and CEO chat arrives. You can lock a chat by
on
Zuckerberg
Mark
tapping the name of a one-to-one or
Monday
announced
a
To reveal these chats, slowly pull
new WhatsApp feature called ‘Chat group and selecting the lock option.
Lock’ to make users’ most intimate down on your inbox and enter your
conversations even more private. phone password or biometric.”
This feature lets you protect “Over the next few months,
your most intimate conversations we’re going to be adding more op-
with a password and secures them tions for Chat Lock, including lock-
in a separate folder. When someone ing for companion devices, creating
messages you and you have that chat a custom password for your chats so
locked, the sender’s name and the that you can use a unique password
content of the message will also be different from your phone’s,” Meta
hidden. Zuckerberg’s announcement CEO concluded.
read, “We’re excited to bring to you a The official Twitter handle of
new feature we’re calling Chat Lock, Whatsapp followed the statement by
which lets you protect your most inti- officially announcing the feature lat-
mate conversations behind one more er in the day.
layer of security.” “Privacy feature just dropped.
“Locking a chat takes that thread tomatically hides the contents of that ple who have reason to share their With Chat Lock, now you can keep
out of the inbox and puts it behind its chat in notifications too,” he added. phones from time to time with a fam- your most private and personal
own folder that can only be accessed In order to describe the need for ily member or those moments where conversations under lock and key
with your device password or bio- the feature, Mark said, “We think someone else is holding your phone with a password,” WhatsApp said
metric, like a fingerprint. It also au- this feature will be great for peo- at the exact moment an extra special in a tweet.

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