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WhatsApp Is Digging Its Own Grave

Meta Platforms Inc. has Initiated a new operation, giving it absolute power over Mobile Network Operators’ (MNO) revenue by introducing WhatsApp as a key channel to share one-time passwords (OTP), putting the SMS’ role and revenue generation in this process at an uncertain halt. And by default, that of telcos and their local and international […]

Whatsapp and Other Messaging Apps Oppose Uk’s Move On Encryption

WhatsApp and other messaging services have united to oppose Britain’s plan to force tech companies to break end-to-end encryption in private messages in its proposed internet safety legislation. Meta-owned WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an “unelected official the power to weaken the privacy of billions […]

Meta’s Whatsapp Rolls Out Business Payment Tool in Brazil

Meta Platforms on Tuesday began rolling out its payments tool to small and medium-sized firms through its WhatsApp messaging platform in Brazil, part of Meta’s strategy to use the Brazilian market as a key test space for business messaging. The development of business messaging has become all the more urgent as Meta’s core advertising business […]

U.S. Supreme Court Lets Meta’s Whatsapp Pursue ‘Pegasus’ Spyware Suit

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents. The justices turned away NSO’s appeal of a lower court’s decision […]

Why You Should Delete WhatsApp, Probably

Whatsapp is one of the most popular apps ever, especially after its acquisition by Facebook. Almost everyone uses Whatsapp, but various scandals have come to light recently. Even Marc Zuckerberg faced much backlash when data was breached or, even worse, stolen. So you should probably take a look at why you should delete WhatsApp.  Brian […]

WhatsApp will hide your ‘last seen’ status from strangers by default

WhatsApp’s messaging platform changed its Last Seen feature, which will no longer display to unknown contacts by default. Therefore, if you haven’t chatted with someone before, they’ll no longer be able to see information about your activity on the app. As such, the new privacy measure comes after WhatsApp previously set the feature on “Everyone” […]

WhatsApp pushes privacy update to comply with Irish ruling

WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users, after Irish regulators slapped the chat service with a record fine for breaching strict EU data privacy rules. Starting Monday, WhatsApp’s privacy policy will be reorganized to provide more information on the data it collects and how it’s used. […]

WhatsApp backup encryption role in safeguarding Data

Facebook announced Thursday deployment news of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android devices. For years, the social networking company provided end-to-end encryption to its messaging platforms. However, with its last encrypted edition, users can obtain a mirrored level of security coding with the devices’ backup. The recently added feature will be slowly […]

Here’s why Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were down

As the whole world went semi-offline last night due to a six-hour outage on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the main question on everyone’s mind was “what’s happening to our social media platforms?”  Well, Facebook cleared the air in a blog post right after the outage was fixed. Apparently, the answer to the popular question isn’t as gripping as most of […]

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change” and that there is “no evidence that user […]