Facebook is planning a digital payments service for WhatsApp in India, the app's largest market.
My thoughts about why I prefer to use Signal, and about some of the challenges that face my efforts to convince others to do the same.
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Each time you install an app, you’re asked to accept the permissions it’s requesting to access the features on your phone. It’s a standard cost of entry for downloading pretty much any app, and particularly free ones. If you’re not paying with money, you’re paying with your data. But despite knowing that an app can …
After WhatsApp’s recent scandal, the privacy-focused messaging app has seen a surge of new users. It’s proving that focusing on privacy is a smart branding decision for all companies.
More than 2 billion people use the communications platform Whatsapp, which is popular for a variety of reasons, not least of which includes end-to-end encryption.
If you use WhatsApp, the incredibly popular messaging app owned by Facebook, chances are you’ve encountered the news surrounding their ever-changing privacy policy. While the service seems to continually shift from more to secure to less secure and back again, you may feel like it’s time to pack up your data and find a new platform to chat with friends.
Fake Emails Pose as WhatsApp Scammers are always taking advantage of what’s new and popular. This time it’s WhatsApp, a smart phone application that allows users to send text, video and…
Abby Fuller got a shock when she logged into WhatsApp using a new telephone number. She found someone else’s messages waiting for her.
Behind apparently free and convenient messaging lies real data threats to privacy
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WhatsApp's new multi-device capability lets you use WhatsApp on your phone and up to four other nonphone devices simultaneously.
Read Article If you don’t agree to WhatsApp’s new privacy policy update, you will be able to receive calls and notifications, but will not be able to read or send messages from the app, says a report. In an email to one of its merchant partners, reviewed by TechCrunch, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said it will “slowly […]
WhatsApp recently started to roll out the multi-device feature that allows users to access the platform on multiple devices even if there is no connectivity on the primary device. Users can link a single WhatsApp account with up to four more devices.
The messaging app, which is owned by Facebook, has been slow to address false news on its service. The problem may be less the company or product, and more WhatsApp the idea.
To realize the use of WhatsApp for business, especially for customer service purposes, companies can implement several steps.
The latest WhatsApp privacy kerfuffle once again has us wondering whether it’s a good idea to be giving so much of our data to a company with Facebook’s track record.
Electric Frontier Foundation’s security ratings criticise messaging app for major security flaws