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Google Lets You Access Private WhatsApp Groups (/thread-7662.html)Google Lets You Access Private WhatsApp Groups - kyonides - 02-24-2020
Google Lets You Access Private WhatsApp Groups
Usually you'd expect WhatsApp groups to be accessed only if YOU ever sent somebody else an invitation to join it. Guess what? A Google search does let you find an index of such invitations.
Vice.com Wrote:Using particular Google searches, people can discover links to the chats, Wildon explained.
App reverse-engineer Jane Wong added in a tweet that Google has around 470,000 results for a simple search of "chat.whatsapp.com," part of the URL that makes up invites to WhatsApp groups.
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After joining, Motherboard was able to see a list of all 48 participants and their phone numbers.
Short Article
https://www.linuxexperten.com/news/google-indexes-invite-links-whatsapp-groups
Lengthy Article
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7enqn/google-is-letting-people-find-invites-to-some-private-whatsapp-groups
What does it mean? People can perform a google search and not only get unrestricted access to your whatsapp group but also check out the members' phone numbers!
Good bye privacy! 
RE: Google Lets You Access Private WhatsApp Groups - KDC - 02-25-2020
Someone at Google's side needs to be fired..... JK JK. They need to clean that mess though.
RE: Google Lets You Access Private WhatsApp Groups - Mel - 02-25-2020
Thankfully I don't use any of these messenger apps.