Text丨Aru talks about popular science
Editor丨Aru talks about popular science
Preamble:
With the popularity and use of social software, more and more people choose to use social software to communicate and communicate, and WeChat is undoubtedly one of the most popular social software.
In WeChat, we can communicate through text, pictures, voice and other ways, and the emergence of voice function undoubtedly brings great convenience to our communication, we can express our emotions and thoughts more intuitively, and we can also better understand the meaning of the other party. Therefore, more and more people are starting to use the WeChat voice function to communicate, thinking that it is more convenient and faster.
However, recently, there is a message about WeChat voice that has gone viral in the circle of friends, and the message content says that WeChat chat should try not to send voice, because the voice will be "eavesdropped" by WeChat, and there is a risk of privacy leakage.
As soon as such news appeared, it immediately attracted widespread attention and discussion, some people were convinced of it and chose not to use the WeChat voice function anymore, while some people were skeptical, believing that it was just a spread of rumors.
In order to better understand this issue, it is necessary for us to have a certain understanding and analysis of the working principle of the WeChat voice function and the relevant privacy policy, so as to make a more objective and reasonable judgment.
The working principle behind WeChat voice
In order to better understand whether WeChat Voice will have the risk of privacy leakage, we first need to have a certain understanding of the working principle behind WeChat Voice. When we actually use the WeChat voice function, when we press and hold the "Speak" button to record, our voice message will be converted into a digital signal and transmitted to the receiver's device through the network, and the receiver can listen to this digital signal to obtain the information we convey.
In this process, the WeChat voice function is actually to transmit information by converting sound into digital signals, and this digital signal needs to pass through various nodes and servers of the network in the process of transmission before it can finally reach the device where the receiver is located. Therefore, some people are worried that WeChat voice messages will be "eavesdropped" by network nodes or servers during transmission, thus posing a risk of privacy leakage.
Interpretation of Weixin's Privacy Policy
In the face of such worries and doubts, we can start with WeChat's privacy policy for certain interpretation and analysis. It is understood that as a social software, WeChat attaches great importance to the privacy protection of users, in the process of using WeChat, our privacy information will not be obtained and used at will, WeChat will also protect our privacy security through certain technical means.
When using the voice function of WeChat, Weixin will also process and protect our voice information to a certain extent, such as encrypting the voice information to ensure that the voice information will not be easily stolen by others during transmission. In addition, according to Weixin's privacy policy, Weixin can only obtain and use the user's voice information after obtaining the user's explicit authorization, and this authorization and consent can also be set and managed at any time, and users can choose whether to consent to Weixin to obtain their own voice information according to their own needs.
Under the protection of such a privacy policy, we can use the WeChat voice function with more confidence, because WeChat will not arbitrarily obtain and use our voice information, and there will be no so-called "eavesdropping" behavior. Of course, in addition to WeChat's own privacy protection work, we should also enhance our awareness of privacy protection in the process of daily use of social software, and avoid passing personal privacy information in an unclear environment, so as to better protect our privacy and security.
How to use the WeChat voice function scientifically and reasonably
Through the interpretation of the working principle of WeChat voice and the WeChat privacy policy, we can understand the WeChat voice function more objectively and have a certain understanding of its privacy protection mechanism. On this basis, how should we use the WeChat voice function scientifically and reasonably?
First of all, we can choose to use the WeChat voice function in a relatively safe and trustworthy network environment, and try to avoid voice communication in public places or unclear network environments, so as to reduce the risk of voice messages being eavesdropped. In addition, we can also make some efforts in personal privacy protection awareness, and we can set relevant privacy permissions in WeChat settings to avoid problems in the process of obtaining and using our private information in WeChat.
In addition, we can also protect our privacy in other ways, such as when we need to transmit important privacy information, we can choose to use more secure communication tools to communicate, such as some communication software specially used for privacy encrypted transmission, so as to better protect our privacy and security.
Xiaobian believes that in today's society, with the popularization of the Internet and smart phones, our way of life and work has undergone great changes, and social software has become an indispensable part of our daily life.
Be selective when choosing social software and using features to avoid gaps in privacy protection. As for the use of WeChat's voice function, we can also use this function scientifically and reasonably through a certain understanding and mastery, so as to better protect our privacy and security.