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Topic: WhatsApp

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SubscriberWrites: SC Registrar’s stance on WhatsApp as invalid mode of service outdated, dogmatic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

WhatsApp down for users in India, UK, South Africa and several other parts of the world

Downdetector said more than 11,000 users across India had reported an outage, while the numbers for United Kingdom were at 68,000 and 19,000 for Singapore as of about 0750 GMT.

AskTalos, the AI-enabled CRM, introduces Cloud Calling and WhatsApp bot

The new feature will enable businesses to manage their leads, communicate with them, and increase sales.

Users will now have upto two days to delete a message on Whatsapp

This feature could give WhatsApp a slight advantage over Apple's iMessage instant messaging service, which doesn't have this feature & won't until its new models are released.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.