Google Is Letting People Find Invites to Some Private WhatsApp Groups
Found on Motherboard on Sunday, 23 February 2020
Google is indexing invite links to WhatsApp group chats whose administrators may want to be private. This means with a simple search, random people can discover and join a wide range of WhatsApp group chats.
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.
So people post links to "secret" groups somewhere on the Internet and are supposed to be surprised because Google indexes them? People are dumber than you would think.