Ahmad Kamran 
The WhatsApp feature of end-to-end encryption has been around for many years, and the company also claims that it can’t see people’s conversations themselves. But it doesn’t seem like WhatsApp’s private groups are as secretive as you might imagine.
In fact, journalist Jordan Weldon has revealed that WhatsApp’s Insight to Group via Link adds feature groups to the search engine’s index. “Your WhatsApp group is not as secure as you imagine,” he said in a tweet on Friday, adding that the Invite To Group Via Link feature groups indexes in Google search and is readily available on the Internet.
In fact, it’s really surprisingly easy to find different WhatsApp groups from a simple Google search.
Your WhatsApp groups may not be as secure as you think they are.
The “Invite to Group via Link” feature allows groups to be indexed by Google and they are generally available across the internet. With some wildcard search terms you can easily find some… interesting… groups. pic.twitter.com/hbDlyN6g3q
— Jordan Wildon (@JordanWildon) February 21, 2020
Internet developer Jane Manchun Wong also cited that over 4 million URLs of chat.whatsapp.com from Google were found on search, which was used for group invoices. Well, this is not a new reveal for the WhatsApp.
Google was told to create a site index in the Open Web site, and that included group invoices, but search engine tools provide tools to block sites from displaying content in the results.
A misconfiguration by WhatsApp enabled ~470k Group Invite links to be indexed by search engines
It should’ve been `Disallow`ed with robots.txt or with the `noindex` meta tag
thanks @JordanWildon for the tip https://t.co/CJxjJ5qyfh pic.twitter.com/FrW1I9Y8vs
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 21, 2020
WhatsApp said: ‘Like all content shared in searchable, public channels, Invite links is for everyone on the Internet so other app users can find them.
But there is only one problem, and that is that a member of the group can affect everyone’s privacy by sharing links while other members may never know what has happened to them.
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Regardless of whether or not there is a solution, it is best if you do not think many times before posting sensitive information in a WhatsApp group.
