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Worried about abuse of social platforms for revenge porn, fake news: Prasad

He also asserted that identification of the originator of messages was still a problem with regard to WhatsApp

Telegram CEO criticises WhatsApp over encryption claims, security backdoors

Durov said WhatsApp marketed end-to-end encryption as some magic incantation that alone is supposed to automatically make all communications secure

Of broken hearts and folded hands

Geetanjali shares her confrontation with Kamini

Facebook revenue grows 25% in Q4 as company warns of rising expenses

Facebook has been under fierce scrutiny worldwide in recent years over its privacy practices.

When fear of strangers is fatal

Stoking parental fear about predators inspires vengeance

Facebook blames Apple iOS for Bezos' phone breach, says WhatsApp unhackable

Investigators believe that Bezos's iPhone was compromised after he received a 4.4MB video file containing malware via WhatsApp

WhatsApp faces global outage, users take to Twitter to report issues

According to Downdetetector.com, the problem started in the evening around 4 p.m. and alive outage map showed users in India, Europe, Brazil and in Southeast Asia were affected by the outage.

JNU violence: HC seeks response of WhatsApp, Google on plea to protect data

The plea was filed by three JNU professors and the court sought response from Delhi Police, Whatsapp, Google, Apple on the plea to preserve data, CCTV footage

Facebook says it won't back down from allowing lies in political ads

In this presidential election year, no big changes are planned in policies governing political advertising

WhatsApp snoop case: Mamata Banerjee asks centre to probe hacking

She reiterated the allegation that her phone was being regularly tapped by the union government

Relief for tech cos as change in proposed digital content norms on cards

Since 2017, rumour-mongering on social media has been blamed for mob attacks that killed 30 people across the country

WhatsApp on New Year's eve: 20 bn messages sent in India, 100 bn worldwide

In WhatsApp's 10-year history, December 31, 2019, saw more messages sent than on any previous day

Pegasus spyware: Bhima-Koregaon activists' lawyer got warning from WhatsApp

Nihalsing Rathod says he was first contacted by CitizenLab researchers, who have done work on Pegasus, and then later by WhatsApp about his phone being compromised.

Year in review: CAA, Article 370 flavoured up social media in 2019

Indians are creating and consuming content on their mobile phones -- right from TikTok videos and Netflix shows to news reports shared by friends and family members on various WhatsApp groups

New WhatsApp bug crashes users' group chats, deletes history forever

The company issued a fix to resolve the issue which is available since WhatsApp version number 2.19.58

Federal Trade Commission may ban integrating Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger

Facebook's plan behind stitching the technical infrastructure of the messaging services it owns is to allow its 2.7 billion users seamlessly communicate across the platforms.

Pricing power

Telcos should not give up freedom to set tariffs

Snooping on citizens without sanction is illegal: Justice B N Srikrishna

Main architect of India's privacy bill says use of spyware like Pegasus can be legally challenged

Snooping row: Parliamentary standing committee on IT summons WhatsApp

The committee would likely discuss the issue of citizens' snooping by exploiting vulnerability in WhatsApp through Israel-based company NSO Group's Pegasus software

Why are Kashmiris disappearing from WhatsApp amid internet shutdown?

The locals who disappeared from the platform have long been active participants in Whatsapp groups sharing news and updates. No one was quite sure of what was happening