Facebook is back after router misconfiguration caused largest-ever outage
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 adds end-to-end encryption to chat backups store in the cloud
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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Re-engineer platforms to comply with traceability requirement: Govt.
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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Irish DPC fines WhatsApp €225 million over GDPR violation
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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What is asymmetric encryption and public key infrastructure?
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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Government launches ‘Sandes’ app, an alternative to 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 banned 20 lakh accounts in a month: Compliance Report
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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Govt to send fresh notices on non-compliance with intermediary rules
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 to encrypt chat backups stored on the cloud
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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EDPB rejects call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has rejected a call to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp user data. It rejected
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