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After Indian government, IIT professor points out how WhatsApp messages can be traced
The first way to trace messages back to their sender on WhatsApp is to embed the first sen…
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'Wrong to report': The Guardian is backtracking on a controversial story about WhatsApp
One major worry about the story was that it could be used to claim that WhatsApp is not secure, pot…
Kif Leswing
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What India needs from WhatsApp might not be so easily attainable
The government has asked Whatsapp to figure out a system where fake messages can be traced b…
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Indian government has found a way to trace WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption
The Indian government might finally have a way around WhatsApp’s issue of not violating end-to-end …
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Tips to spot fake messages and news on WhatsApp
WhatsApp is one of the most used instant messaging apps across the globe. It has to deal with the n…
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WhatsApp moves the Delhi High Court against India’s new IT laws concerning traceability of users
The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 20…
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WhatsApp may be about to clone Snapchat's distinctive disappearing chats feature
Per WABetaInfo, the feature first appeared in the 2.19.275 version of WhatsApp's Android app but it…
Charlie Wood
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WhatsApp tightens sharing limits to curb virus misinformation
In recent weeks, "we've seen a significant increase in the amount of forwarding which users have t…
PTI
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Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram face a catch-22 situation as India’s new social media rules threaten encryption
The catch-22 here is, “Who came first, the chicken or the egg?”
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WhatsApp is delaying a new policy change after critics claimed the update would have turned over user data to Facebook
WhatsApp said the delay is due to "confusion" surrounding the new policy, which it said will "not e…
Katie Canales
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WhatsApp is offering rewards for a solution to deal with misinformation in India
They’ve even named the contest, the ‘WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinform…
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India’s Supreme Court has put the government on a timer to curb misuse of social media
The Supreme Court bench, led by Justice Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, has also asked the gove…
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WhatsApp now lets you turn on disappearing messages for all chats — here’s how to enable it
Default disappearing messages, as the name suggests, will automatically delete messages in all c…
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WhatsApp says viral message forwarding is down 70% after it took steps to combat COVID-19 misinformation
Social media companies have had to scramble to combat misinformation, hoaxes, and conspiracy theori…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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WhatsApp building India-team to curb fake news, but government is not satisfied
WhatsApp’s response to notices issued by the government has been that addressing the problem …
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WhatsApp rolling out caption message edit feature on Android, iOS
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a caption message edit feature on Android and…
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Meta's $19 billion bid to own messaging in the US gains steam — and AI could give it an edge over Apple's iMessage
Meta reached 100 million monthly active US users for its messaging app WhatsApp, and new AI feature…
Sarah Jackson
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Fake text messages claiming the US military would enforce a country-wide lockdown went viral last month. They were spread by Chinese agents, according to a new report.
US intelligence officials believe Chinese agents helped spread the misinformation in order to incit…
Aaron Holmes
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WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don't agree to its new privacy policy
The WhatsApp privacy policy was delayed over confusion about whether users would share more data wi…
Anna Cooban
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'WhatsApp Pink': Here’s all you need to know to protect yourself from the scam
Numerous individuals are receiving messages that promise an update called 'WhatsApp Pink.' Essentia…