{"id":284252,"date":"2026-06-30T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-privacy-changes-newsfeed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:55:11","slug":"whatsapp-privacy-changes-newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/whatsapp-privacy-changes-newsfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhatsApp Privacy Changes\u201d | Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/30\/whatsapp-privacy\">\u201cWhatsApp Privacy Changes\u201d | Newsfeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/30\/whatsapp-privacy\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/30\/whatsapp-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 18:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aljazeera.com\">www.aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"program__page__source\"><span class=\"video-program-source__program-name\">NewsFeed<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">WhatsApp is rolling out usernames to keep phone numbers private. The feature gets installed later this year, however, users are able to start reserving their usernames now. This change marks a new level of privacy for WhatsApp users who want to keep their numbers private while still chatting and joining groups with new people.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s @emmawithrow examines why WhatsApp decided to add the new feature and how it will impact privacy for users going forward.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 30 Jun 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">30 Jun 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>google<span class=\"google-preferred-source__text\">Add Al Jazeera on Google<\/span>info<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/30\/whatsapp-privacy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhatsApp Privacy Changes\u201d | Newsfeed https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/6\/30\/whatsapp-privacy Publish Date: 2026-06-30 18:38:00 Source Domain: www.aljazeera.com NewsFeed WhatsApp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9968-1782858744.png?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284254,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284252\/revisions\/284254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}