The Confederation of All India Traders also sought a direction to the Centre to intervene and frame guidelines to govern large tech companies such as WhatsApp and Facebook.
After new policy was announced, millions of users moved from WhatsApp to rivals like Signal & Telegram. The policy change was originally scheduled to come into effect on 8 February.
Facebook makes changes to make more money from its services. A slew of users get upset, but then promptly return. There’s little to suggest things will be any different this time.
The plea claimed that the new privacy policy of WhatsApp allows full access to a user's online activity without there being any supervision by the government.
Signal's chief executive officer tells ThePrint about the kind of growth it's seeing amid the privacy concerns over WhatsApp, and why its platform is drawing more attention.
One Russian, one Swiss, an American not-for-profit & a European collaborative — 4 apps are seeing their fortunes change even as WhatsApp tries to put out the user privacy fire.
WhatsApp emphasised that it does not share users' contact lists or data of groups with Facebook, and that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can read messages or hear calls between users.
When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.
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'.
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.
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.
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Batting for Whatsapp, The Print? Signal has gained at least 200 million users in just a week, numbers that would match the best signup weekly numbers for WhatsApp during its existence. I understand it could be difficult for the “uncles and aunties” at The Print to switch and co-ordinate a move to a newer and superior app (try a voice conversation on Signal and compare it with one on WhatsApp for quality, for one – every uncleji and auntyji will sound more natural) but privacy makes sense. It works even for the buzurg community who are heartened by contrived cartoons put up by Facebook / WhatsApp shills. Take it from an old man who’s been there, seen it, and who works for a technology licensing practice for a living.
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Batting for Whatsapp, The Print? Signal has gained at least 200 million users in just a week, numbers that would match the best signup weekly numbers for WhatsApp during its existence. I understand it could be difficult for the “uncles and aunties” at The Print to switch and co-ordinate a move to a newer and superior app (try a voice conversation on Signal and compare it with one on WhatsApp for quality, for one – every uncleji and auntyji will sound more natural) but privacy makes sense. It works even for the buzurg community who are heartened by contrived cartoons put up by Facebook / WhatsApp shills. Take it from an old man who’s been there, seen it, and who works for a technology licensing practice for a living.