WhatsApp was ordered by a US government agency to spy on several foreign nationals, even though the agency had no evidence the users had committed a crime or even knew their names. A recently unsealed search warrant from November 2021 shows that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had ordered …
Read More »WhatsApp, Signal & Telegram banned by Swiss Army
Swiss soldiers are required to stop using WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, and use a domestic messenger instead, Swiss media reported this week. Data protection was cited as the reason. Commanders and chiefs of staff received an instruction in late December informing them of the new rules, according to Swiss media. …
Read More »Wall Street bank hit with fines for using WhatsApp
Following probes by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, JPMorgan officially acknowledged that from at least 2015, its Wall Street employees used personal devices to send texts, WhatsApp messages, and emails to communicate with clients on sensitive business matters. This is a violation of …
Read More »Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week
Facebook and its subsidiaries have crashed mysteriously for users all around the world on Friday, according to outage tracker DownDetector. It is the second major outage this week for the social media behemoth. The trillion-dollar company acknowledged outages affecting its various platforms, using the exact same language it deployed to …
Read More »Call me a luddite, but just imagine if Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all crashed at the same time…and nobody gave a damn
On Monday evening at 16.44 BST – a moment that will live in infamy – Mark Zuckerberg’s electric kingdom suddenly went dark. Millions of social media users were left perched precariously on the rocks overlooking serene sunsets, or languishing lonely over champagne and sherbet in some trendy cafe with not …
Read More »Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram ALL down in major worldwide outage
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Read More »Facebook pays contractors to read your ‘encrypted’ WhatsApp messages, shares info with prosecutors – reports
Social media behemoth Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising to keep the stripped-down, ad-free messaging app “exactly the same.” End-to-end encryption was introduced in 2016, with the app itself offering on-screen assurances to users that “No one outside of this chat” can read their communications, and …
Read More »‘Agent Bruno’, a chat with Rio, Evra on WhatsApp & the Fergie factor: Man Utd stars past & present overjoyed after swaying Ronaldo
Ferguson, the club’s greatest ever manager and a mentor to Ronaldo after signing him from Sporting Lisbon in 2003, is said to have personally contacted his former star amid widespread reported interest from United’s arch-rivals, Manchester City, on Friday morning. The 13-time Premier League title-winning boss is likely to have …
Read More »Russia fines US tech giants Facebook, Twitter & WhatsApp nearly half million dollars over refusal to stop sending user data abroad
On Thursday, media watchdog Roskomnadzor issued a statement confirming that Moscow’s Tagansky Court had slapped steep fines on three American social platforms, microblogging site Twitter, messaging service WhatsApp and its parent company, Facebook. “By court order, WhatsApp was fined 4 million rubles ($54,000),” officials said. “Facebook – 15 million rubles …
Read More »WhatsApp SUES Indian government over new social media rules, citing ‘privacy concerns’ – reports
The Facebook subsidiary brought a legal complaint in the Indian capital on Tuesday, arguing one of the new rules violates privacy rights protected by the country’s constitution while asking the Delhi High Court to strike it down, Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the case. Announced in February and coming …
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