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facebook outage
Information Technology 

Facebook is back after router misconfiguration caused largest-ever outage

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Rohit Ranjan Praveer 0 Comments Facebook, Facebook Outage, instagram, Networking, WhatsApp

Facebook’s family of applications- Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger went down yesterday night for almost six hours. The outage started

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WhatsApp encrypt chat backups
Data Protection & Privacy 

WhatsApp adds end-to-end encryption to chat backups store in the cloud

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Pukhraj Biala 0 Comments Chat Backup, End to End Encryption, privacy, WhatsApp

WhatsApp is rolling out a new update that will allow users to turn on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chat backups

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WhatsApp 7 days
Information Technology Intermediary Liability 

Re-engineer platforms to comply with traceability requirement: Govt.

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 Rajat Chawda 0 Comments End to End Encryption, Facebook, Intermediary Rules, meity, Traceability Requirement, WhatsApp

The government has reiterated its support for the traceability requirement. It has made clear that social media platforms must “re-engineer

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WhatsApp gdpr violation
Data Protection & Privacy 

Irish DPC fines WhatsApp €225 million over GDPR violation

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Rajat Chawda 0 Comments data protection, Data Protection Commission, GDPR, GDPR fine, Ireland, WhatsApp

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook-owned WhatsApp €225 million ($266 mn, £193 mn) over General Data Protection

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asymmetric encryption and public key infrastructure
Cyber Security For Dummies 

What is asymmetric encryption and public key infrastructure?

September 1, 2021April 29, 2023 Tanisha Das 0 Comments Asymmetric Encryption, encryption, hashing, information technology act, Internet Security, public key infrastructure, SSL Certificate, WhatsApp

Let’s start with a small trivia. Do you know when was the first computer invented? It was back in the 19th century

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Sandes App
Information Technology 

Government launches ‘Sandes’ app, an alternative to WhatsApp

August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 Pukhraj Biala 0 Comments encryption, Intermediary Rules, Sandes, WhatsApp

The Government of India has launched the ‘Sandes’ app, an alternative to WhatsApp. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed

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WhatsApp compliance report
Information Technology Intermediary Liability 

WhatsApp banned 20 lakh accounts in a month: Compliance Report

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Pukhraj Biala 0 Comments information technology act, Intermediary Rules, Monthly Compliance Report, WhatsApp

Recently, WhatsApp in compliance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021

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notices intermediary rules
Information Technology Intermediary Liability 

Govt to send fresh notices on non-compliance with intermediary rules

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Pukhraj Biala 0 Comments Intermediary Rules, meity, signal, social media, telegram, WhatsApp

Many companies are yet to comply with the new intermediary rules and the Government is in the process of sending

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WhatsApp encrypt chat backups
Information Technology Technology Policy 

WhatsApp to encrypt chat backups stored on the cloud

July 18, 2021July 18, 2021 Rajat Chawda 0 Comments Chat Backup, encryption, End to End Encryption, Facebook, messaging, WhatsApp

In a new update, WhatsApp has announced to introduce multi-device usage without a phone and encrypt chat backups stored on

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Data Protection & Privacy Technology Policy 

EDPB rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data

July 15, 2021July 18, 2021 Rajat Chawda 0 Comments data protection, Privacy Policy, processing, WhatsApp

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has rejected a call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data. It rejected

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Maridhas Twitter FIR Madras High Court
Tech Verdicts 

FIR against Maridhas for objecting to joy over Gen. Rawat’s death quashed

December 15, 2021December 18, 2021 Rohit Ranjan Praveer 0

The Madras High Court has quashed an FIR against YouTuber Maridhas who objected to the celebration of CDS Bipin Rawat’s

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