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UK

Facebook-owned apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram used in over half of online grooming cases in England and Wales

Posted on November 13, 2020November 13, 2020By Editor

New research from a children’s charity has warned that grooming crimes increased by 10 percent to 1,220 during the three months of lockdown, with more than half taking place on apps owned by the tech giant Facebook. … Read More >Facebook-owned apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram used in over half of online grooming cases in England and Wales

USA

Facebook breakup would be ‘complete nonstarter’: memo leaked ahead of antitrust report

Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020By Editor

Separating Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp would harm consumers, cost billions and defy US law, the social media giant argued in a memo leaked to the media ahead of a congressional report expected to advise otherwise. … Read More >Facebook breakup would be ‘complete nonstarter’: memo leaked ahead of antitrust report

World

WhatsApp outage causes international freakout

Posted on July 15, 2020July 15, 2020By Editor

Users of Facebook-owned messenger service WhatsApp are reporting outages around the globe, sending many scurrying onto other social media platforms to complain. … Read More >WhatsApp outage causes international freakout

World

Zoom, TikTok pause data requests from Hong Kong authorities following new national security law, joining Facebook and WhatsApp

Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020By Editor

US video conferencing platform Zoom has joined Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram in suspending data requests from Hong Kong authorities following the enactment of the new national security law. … Read More >Zoom, TikTok pause data requests from Hong Kong authorities following new national security law, joining Facebook and WhatsApp

WhatsApp’s long-awaited peer-to-peer payment plans canned a week after launch

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020By Editor

Brazil’s Central Bank has announced that it has suspended WhatsApp’s peer-to-peer payment system shortly after launch, jeopardizing Facebook’s plans to enter the digital payments world. … Read More >WhatsApp’s long-awaited peer-to-peer payment plans canned a week after launch

World

WhatsApp Blasts Israeli Firm for ‘Being Deeply Involved’ in Hacking 1,400 Users, Court Files Say

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020By Editor

The now unveiled court documents reveal how an Israeli firm could technically have conducted the hacking of strings of individuals, including human rights activists and journalists, alleging that it was carried out through its special software called Pegasus. … Read More >WhatsApp Blasts Israeli Firm for ‘Being Deeply Involved’ in Hacking 1,400 Users, Court Files Say

World

WhatsApp limits message-forwarding worldwide after influx of fake news amid Covid-19 pandemic

Posted on April 8, 2020April 8, 2020By Editor

Online instant messaging service WhatsApp said it will limit its users’ ability to forward messages, in a bid to curb the spread of fake news at the time of the global coronavirus pandemic. … Read More >WhatsApp limits message-forwarding worldwide after influx of fake news amid Covid-19 pandemic

WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok in Trouble in India For Allegedly Spreading ‘Anti-National’ Propaganda

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020By Editor

With the widespread use of smartphones and internet, the Indian population is pretty active on social media. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and TikTok are used extensively, in some cases to push fake or unverified information. … Read More >WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok in Trouble in India For Allegedly Spreading ‘Anti-National’ Propaganda

World

‘Imposing collective punishment’: Employees of Israeli spyware company NSO Group countersue Facebook for deplatforming

Posted on November 27, 2019November 27, 2019By Editor

Eight employees of infamous Israeli spyware company NSO Group are countersuing Facebook after it took their accounts offline while suing NSO for spying on thousands of users of its subsidiary WhatsApp through a security exploit. … Read More >‘Imposing collective punishment’: Employees of Israeli spyware company NSO Group countersue Facebook for deplatforming

World

‘Delete WhatsApp unless you’re OK with surveillance,’ founder of rival Telegram messenger warns

Posted on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019By Editor

WhatsApp is a “Trojan horse” exploited to snoop on millions of users naive enough to believe that the Facebook-owned messenger differs from its parent company, long beset by privacy scandals, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said. … Read More >‘Delete WhatsApp unless you’re OK with surveillance,’ founder of rival Telegram messenger warns