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WhatsApp will allow users to go by usernames, closing a privacy blind spot

WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot. WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.

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WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot. WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number. WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot. The app said it has started allowing users to reserve unique usernames, which can be used to contact WhatsApp users when the feature is launched later this year. WhatsApp, which says it has more than three billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number. The app, owned by Meta Platforms, said in a blog post that over the "coming months" users will get the option to be found and contacted only by their username, and not their number. "We have designed this as a core privacy feature," Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp's vice president of product, told reporters. "People will need to know your exact username to contact you for the first time," she said. WhatsApp's current privacy settings are limited to blocking individual users and silencing unknown callers.

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Collocation · WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot.
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Collocation · WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot.
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Collocation · WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.
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Collocation · WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.

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