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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: WhatsApp

Most awaited feature on WhatsApp–now you can edit messages

With the feature rolling out globally in the coming weeks, senders will be able to modify their messages within 15 minutes of hitting send.

Govt uses AI to weed out mobile connections based on fake IDs, 37 lakh connections culled so far

Highest number of SIMs were culled in Bengal (over 12 L), followed by Haryana (over 5 L). A person had taken 5,300 connections using same image with different names, says minister.

WhatsApp introduces ‘Chat Lock’ feature to hide private conversations

Washington: Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced a new WhatsApp feature called 'Chat Lock' to make users' most intimate conversations even...

Govt to probe WhatsApp’s ‘privacy breach’ but Meta-owned firm blames bug on Android devices

A Twitter user has accused WhatsApp of 'illegally' accessing microphones in smartphones.

Did you get a WhatsApp video call from unknown number? Chat apps fair game as online con takes new form

As scammers get innovative by the day, experts say regulations aren’t the issue but enforcing them is. User awareness is of the essence, they add. 

WhatsApp blocked 47 lakh Indian accounts in March, 16 lakh of them proactively

The instant messaging platform in a statement said it received 4,720 grievances from users in India in March.

SubscriberWrites: SC Registrar’s stance on WhatsApp as invalid mode of service outdated, dogmatic

High Court of Delhi along with district courts routinely allow for service of summons through ‘all modes of service’ , write Ivan and Vivek Mathur.

SC tells WhatsApp to alert users that new privacy policy’s not a must — ‘publicise it twice’

Bench said app must publicise undertaking to govt — that it won't deprive users of service for not agreeing to policy, till new data protection regime comes in — in 5 national papers.

Meta India public policy chief Rajiv Aggarwal, WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose resign

The company has appointed Shivnath Thukral as its new director for public policy in India, a Meta spokesperson said.

WhatsApp services restored after hours of outage in India, several parts of globe

More than 30,000 people across India said they faced problems in receiving and sending texts via WhatsApp, according to Downdetector.

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.