WhatsApp texts may help locate missing tourist

Canberra: Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is working with Australian authorities to help locate a missing Belgian backpacker who disappeared in May, officials said on Tuesday.
Theo Hayez, 18, disappeared while returning from a nightclub to his hostel in Byron Bay on the night of May 31, and is understood to have sent WhatsApp messages in the hours before he went missing.
Kai Riemer, professor of Information Technology and Organisation at the University of Sydney, told Xinhua news agency on Tuesday that WhatsApp would not have access to message content but would likely have access to metadata.