The "spy" application chatwatch is literally on everyone's lips. The Mexican app capable of check the movements of your Whatsapp contacts looks like a real one enemy for privacy of all of us and a strong ally of jealous boyfriends and curious and nosy "friends". However, there are several ways to defend against this attack on privacy. But most of all: Chatwatch works or not of a sensational hoax?
How Chatwatch Works
The operation of chatwatch - developed by the Desarrollo company of the Potencial Organizacional SA de CV. - it's really very simple: the application should unfortunately be able to monitor the activity (online / offline) of all your Whatsapp contacts (be they friends, family, employees or other).
By crossing a series of data and using artificial intelligence, Chatwatch becomes like an Orwellian Big Brother in the web version, thus being able to predict even if a friend of yours has chatted with a particular person in the last period. It is also able to estimate the times when one of your contacts went to bed and woke up the next morning.
To access this application, simply download it from Google Playstore (Fortunately it has already been removed from the App Store).
What it can do
The tasks he is presumably capable of performing chatwatch there are mainly three:
- Chronology: how long has your contact spent chatting on Whatsapp? Just swipe your finger on the timeline to check exactly when and for how long they used Whatsapp.
- Probable Chat: this tool compares two phone numbers of your choice such as that of your boyfriend / girlfriend and that of a friend. The app will check when the two contacts were online in the same amount of time and how likely they are to have chatted together. Guys, remember that there are coincidences, so it is not certain that two contacts were actually having a conversation together.
- Stats: this latter function would be able to track the sleep habits of one of your Whatsapp contacts based exclusively on the chat activities implemented during the day.
How to defend against Chatwatch
Hoax or not, defending yourself from this "nice" application is extremely easy. To get away from the stalkers just deactivate "last access". Go to the Whatsapp app, tap on, “Settings”> “Account”> “Privacy”> “Last Access” and finally decide who to hide your last access from.
Otherwise, switch to Telegram so you are sure that no one is spying on you.
Users just don't like it
It seems that users do not like this spying application at all. Some complain that Chatwatch is paid and that it does not give the possibility to have at least one trial, others complain about the ethics of this instrument, still others say that only a fool would buy something like that. Finally, most of those who have downloaded it say it is a hoax.
Chatwatch no longer on the app stores
chatwatch was removed from the stores as an unreliable application (or perhaps a hoax). In any case, if you really care about having it, you can search for the APK file on Google (we always advise against it).
Chatwatch has now been “reinvented” as a web service. To register and start a two-day trial, you need - as the site itself says - a computer and a Whatsapp account.
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