Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations levelled at the social network in the wake of the bitter US election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document. It shows that Facebook – launched, in Zuckerberg’s
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The newly named chief of Japanese retailer Rakuten’s messaging app Viber plans to quickly introduce new products to better compete with Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger as the market faces increasing regulation in the
A German consumer group has sued Facebook’s WhatsApp in a Berlin court over clauses that allow the messaging service to collect and transfer user data between the platforms. The suit is challenging the privacy terms WhatsApp
The Guardian has drawn the ire of a large number of cryptography and security experts by publishing a story claiming that WhatsApp has a security backdoor that would allow it, or governments, to snoop
There’s a security backdoor in WhatsApp that can be used by parent Facebook, government agencies and others to intercept and read encrypted messages sent through the popular mobile phone messaging app, according to a report. The Guardian
Mobile operator Cell C is hiking the price of out-of-bundle data by more than 10% on many of its tariff plans, while also pushing up contract and data subscription charges. In a notice published on the company’s website, it said out-of-bundle
Facebook’s WhatsApp has finally joined rivals from WeChat to Snapchat in offering video calls. The messaging service, responding to popular demand, will begin rolling out the long-awaited feature to its billion-plus users across
European Union privacy chiefs said Facebook must stop processing user data from its WhatsApp messaging service while they are investigating the privacy policy changes the company announced in August. The Article 29 Working Party
Experts say the price of voice calls over mobile networks could become obsolete with the advent of 5G and so-called over-the-top (OTT) services like WhatsApp. This was the focus of a panel discussion at
Instant messaging appplications WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger will not combine and will operate independently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. The statement was made after WhatsApp’s recent announcement that