Beware! Your private Whatsapp group chat is not actually private, here’s how to fix the bug

Days after there were reports that the WhatsApp group invite links are not as private as they were considered and that anyone can enter the group and take out details of group members, particularly through Google search, the Facebook-owned social media platform has now acknowledged the fault and initiated steps to address the bug as well.

Sharing this message on Twitter, Jane Manchun Wong, a well-known reverse-engineer working with the US-based tech giant said that the WhatsApp links have been removed from Google. Meta tag “noindex” has been added on chat invitation links. It is to be noted here that the code with “noindex” meta tag does not allow the search engine giant index the particular content.

It is however, the first step for Facebook, as many such chat links are yet to be removed from other search engines like DuckDuckGo, Yandex and Bing.