Track your friends' WhatsApp activity with Chatwatch. Innovative or creepy?
An iOS app called Chatwatch allows users to track their friends' WhatsApp activity. Interestingly, it does so by using the same data that WhatsApp collects on its users. It uses this data to analyze how often your friends are on WhatsApp, when they were online, and by extension can estimate what time they go to sleep and wake up every day. Innovative or creepy, you decide.
Chatwatch tells which two contacts were talking to each other
Taking its spying capabilities a step further, Chatwatch uses artificial intelligence (AI) to combine the WhatsApp data of two contacts to see if they've been talking to each other. For example, if two of your friends are both online at 3 am for the same consecutive five minutes, Chatwatch will make an educated guess that they were talking to each other.
"Who were you chatting with at 3am?!"
"Use Chatwatch to monitor your friends, family or employees' Whatsapp online/offline activity. Even when their "Last Seen" is hidden. Find out when they went to bed, how long they slept... Even compare chat patterns between people you know," the company said.
Chatwatch uses same data that WhatsApp collects on its users
To do all of this, the app developers are using the same data that WhatsApp quietly collects on its users. This highlights how companies like WhatsApp handle our data, and in what capacity can that data be used to spy on users. Notably, Chatwatch charges $1.99 to spy on two contacts for a week. The money allegedly goes towards funding an anti-Trump political non-profit.
