WhatsApp banned 65 lakh accounts in May. The company took this action after complaints from Indian customers. The company has given this information under the new rules of IT. This procedure has been done from May 1 to May 31.
WhatsApp banned more than 65 lakh accounts
The report said that 65,08,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned during this period. Out of which 24,20,700 accounts were banned by the company without any complaint.
WhatsApp closed 74 lakh bad accounts in April
In April, WhatsApp closed more than 74 lakh bad accounts. Also, in May, the company received 3,912 complaints like sanction appeals from India. Out of them 297 cases were prosecuted.
The Center started a Grievance Appeal Committee
The Center has recently launched a Grievance Appeal Committee to empower millions of Indians who use Internet media. It listens to their grievances in terms of content and other issues.
Facebook and Instagram acted on the complaint
Facebook and Instagram also took action after receiving complaints. Facebook has acted on 27 percent of complaints, while Instagram has acted on nearly 40 percent. Individual complaints on Facebook more than doubled to 16,995 in May compared to April’s figures, and on Instagram increased by more than 68 percent.
Want to keep WhatsApp chats private? Do this remedy
Meta has recently added a chat lock feature to the app to improve and strengthen the privacy of WhatsApp users. With its help you can lock your social chats. To lock the chat you have to go to the user’s profile and turn on the chat lock option. Doing so moves the chat to another folder. If you are also using this feature of WhatsApp, then know these 2 things for sure.
Keep these 2 things in mind
If you have locked a chat in WhatsApp, it will not be locked in WhatsApp web version. Which means, anyone can see it. If you open your account on WhatsApp Web, another person can read your chats.
If you keep the Chat Lock folder open and forget to close this window, anyone can still read your chats. So turn off WhatsApp before going somewhere. So that your privacy is not disturbed. In fact this might be a bug that the company should fix in the future. But there is no information yet on when this will happen.