Shillong, May 10: After a Twitter engineer alleged that WhatsApp had been utilising his microphone in the background while he slept, Elon Musk stated that WhatsApp cannot be trusted.
To back up his assertions, the Twitter employee supplied a screenshot of an Android dashboard. Musk replied to the tweet by saying that one cannot trust the platform. On the other hand, the head of Twitter is adding voice and video calling capabilities similar to those of WhatsApp to Twitter.
The screenshot of an Android dashboard was posted on Twitter by Foad Dabiri, a Twitter engineer. According to the screenshot, WhatsApp had access to his microphone in the background from 4:20 till 6:53 in the morning.
Dabiri wrote on Twitter, “WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6 am (and that’s just a part of the timeline!) What’s going on?”
WhatsApp in a tweet stated, “Over the last 24 hours we’ve been in touch with a Twitter engineer who posted an issue with his Pixel phone and WhatsApp. We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate.”
Musk’s tweeted, “With latest version of app, you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most recent) and use any emoji reaction. Release of encrypted DMs V1.0 should happen tomorrow. This will grow in sophistication rapidly. The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if there was a gun to my head. Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.”