Google Search Is Indexing WhatsApp Group Invites via Links

It only affected content posted on publicly accessible websites

WhatsApp often touts its privacy features, such as end-to-end encryption and two-factor authentication, but it seems like loopholes always find a way to surface.

Deutsche Welle multimedia journalist Jordan Wildon said in a series of tweets that he accidentally opened content-discovery and social analytics tool CrowdTangle via a WhatsApp web tab and discovered that Google was indexing group invites shared on the messaging application via links.

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