The controversial applications that tell you when and with whom another person talks on WhatsApp

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The word privacy is defined as an area of ​​private life that has the right to protect from any interference.

The information we store on our mobile phone is part of our private life, so taking a look at our partner's mobile phone while going to the bathroom goes from mischief to crime very quickly.

Specifically, you would be committing a crime of Discovery and Disclosure of Secrets contemplated in article 197 of the Penal Code.

WhatsApp

is the target application for these snoopers who, driven by jealousy, curiosity and recklessness, take advantage of the slightest opportunity to open what ends up being a

.

Although the application focuses on providing more and more privacy to the user, there are third-party applications that take advantage of the slightest vulnerability to reveal information to the toxic partner on duty.

Currently, the messaging application stores the minimum amount of data of its users, end-to-end

.

It even allows you to put a password on the conversations, but there is something that was left in the air, the Online indicator that indicates when the user has the application open on their mobile phone, that is, when they are using it consciously.

What seems to be a harmless indicator that for now cannot be deactivated from the application itself, unlike the last hour of connection, the protagonist of so many discussions,

How do they work

These intrusive applications do not require even the slightest computer knowledge.

The spy is not a man in a balaclava pounding on a computer keyboard to 'chew' code like a maniac, he can be anyone with internet access and a lot of bad drool.

automatically makes a detailed report of the use that user makes of the messaging service for days and even weeks.

Creating

.

Think of monitoring teens who stay up all night chatting before an important exam,

or even family members and friends who are involved in shady deals. If you desperately need to know, we are here to help ", so reads one of the spy applications collected by Business Insider.

If reading this far has already horrified you, make yourself some tea before continuing, because these applications do not stop here.

, just by entering their mobile phones, to be able to conclude which users were talking to each other and at what time, although not the content of the messages.

A

to walk around the house that already has little dystopian.

Karma exists

It is enough to do a simple search in Google for applications to spy / hack WhatsApp to realize that it is difficult, first, to find applications that work and of which the spy does not end up being a victim.

Many of the apps that

on the text of the messages that the victim exchanges are actually a scam that takes advantage of people's desperation and bad intentions.

At first, these applications seem to work but before sending the desired information they ask to go to the cashier, and then, after the disbursement, stay loading until the end of time or give an error with which the spy, with a few euros less in the Mind you,

.

One of the most famous was WhatsAppSpy, whose creator ended up arrested.

The young Murcian engineer was arrested when he had already

scamming users who wanted to spy on other people's conversations.

A whole moral for those who still want to try their luck with this type of spy application.

Inevitable

Despite the efforts of the Facebook-owned messaging service, spying by apps that exploit the vulnerability of the Online dialer is inevitable.

According to Business Insider, WhatsApp ensures that these applications violate its terms of use.

The company also claims that it has detection systems for this type of third-party services and applications that have worked in the past by blocking similar spy applications, so we assume that in the future they will also stop working.

So for now there is no other option but to wait for the spy to come across a fraudulent application that makes him learn his lesson.

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