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Spotify and Joe Rogan take the easy way out
The streaming service and star podcaster pledge minor changes as they look to quell COVID criticism. Read More
More of Meta’s dirty laundry may soon get aired
A judge’s ruling Tuesday in a federal antitrust case sets the stage for potentially damaging disclosures of internal company records. Read More
WhatsApp is Facebook’s global brand ambassador
While the U. S. sours on Facebook, WhatsApp remains an incredibly popular and vital utility for billions of people around the world. Read More
Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from users who couldn’t use the social media giant’s apps and services. But beyond the obvious inconvenience to those cut off from these services, […]
WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all
Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp) Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner since 2014, can neither read […]
WhatsApp fined $267M for not telling users how it shared data with Facebook
Enlarge (credit: Stan Honda / Getty Images) WhatsApp has been fined €225 million for breaking the EU’s data privacy law by not telling its users how it was sharing their data with its parent company Facebook. In one of the biggest fines relating to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish data regulator applied […]
Homegrown app helping Kabul residents steer clear of danger
Enlarge / Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along the roadside in Kabul on August 16, 2021. (credit: Getty Images) As Kabul fell on Sunday, 20 young Afghan tech workers tracked the Taliban’s advance, broadcasting real-time reports of gunfire, explosions, and traffic jams across the city through a new app. Called Ehtesab, the app […]
WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul
Enlarge / Experts in the region said shutting down the WhatsApp numbers was “absurd” and “unhelpful. ” (credit: SOPA Images | Getty Images) WhatsApp has shut down a complaints helpline set up by the Taliban when it took control of Kabul, after the messaging app came under pressure to block the group from using its […]
WhatsApp delays privacy policy changes after users defect to rivals Signal and Telegram
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Facebook is delaying a privacy update to its WhatsApp messaging service after users started defecting to rival services like Signal and Telegram because of fears of the changes. WhatsApp is moving its privacy policy update […]