European decision on data-sharing between Facebook and Whatsapp is coming
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Saturday that the long-running investigation of Facebook and WhatsApp's conduct in the European Union, concerning transparency of data-sharing between the two platforms, is headed for a resolution.
In what many are saying is a significant...
Google and Microsoft join Facebook’s legal battle against NSO
Tech giants file "friend of the court" brief that describes the Israeli firm as a menace.
Tech giants including Microsoft and Google joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO, according to Reuters. The firms filed an amicus brief in federal court that claimed NSO's tools were ...
EU encourages end-to-end encryption
The EU has published a resolution on how to deal with encryption, security and privacy in the future. Contrary to previous fears, the Union does not want to prohibit end-to-end encryption or require a backdoor.
In the resolution, the EU indicates that it wants to strike a balance between the pos...
Facebook might have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp
Several bodies of the US administration have started a lawsuit against Facebook. They feel that the company is thwarting competitors by simply buying them up when they grow too big.
The prosecutors consist of the Federal Trade Commission and 46 US states. They complain about the 'buy or bury' st...
European Council wants ‘master key’ for encrypted messages
The European Council of Ministers is working on a proposal that would oblige chat applications such as WhatsApp and Signal to develop methods for intelligence services to view messages on the platforms.
The proposal follows a recent terrorist attack that took place in Vienna. A sympathizer of th...
The antitrust lawsuit against Facebook could start this month
Politico recently reported that the long-awaited antitrust lawsuit from the United States Federal Trade Commission against Facebook could be here before the end of this November. The report, which came out on Friday, cites three people familiar with the matter and says that the FTC is considering h...
‘WhatsApp is working on a feature to synchronize chats’
WhatsApp is working on a feature for synchronizing chats between iOS and Android (or vice versa), according to ABetaInfo.
For the time being, it appears that users can access their entire history on four different devices with only one account (linked to a phone number). This probably requires w...
WhatsApp displayed phone numbers of users in Google search results
WhatsApp users who used the Click to Chat feature in the app unknowingly had their phone number appear in Google's search results. An estimated amount of 300.000 phone numbers of WhatsApp users worldwide were published online.
Cybersecurity expert Athul Jayaram discovered the problem after he no...
WhatsApp expands number of possible participants in videocall
Users of the WhatsApp chat app will soon be able to participate in a video call with up to seven other people, compared to a total of four to date. This should make WhatsApp a more attractive alternative for maintaining social contacts during the corona crisis.
Since the outbreak of the corona v...
Dropbox expands Extensions with Gmail, Teams and WhatsApp
Last year, Dropbox released Extensions to perform simple tasks for other software from Dropbox. Now, Dropbox is launching a new series of Extensions.
Extensions are basically nothing more than third party software plug-ins. With these Extensions, users can, for example, put a digital signature o...
WhatsApp sues Israeli company for spying on users
In May this year, WhatsApp was found to contain a vulnerability that allowed users to be eavesdropped on. Spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group was used for this purpose. The chat app has now taken the NSO Group to court because of the practices.
The NSO Group's spyware was found to be inst...
MessageBird introduces new API for business message integration
Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) supplier MessageBird launches a new API that improves sending and receiving messages to customers via WhatsApp and Messenger, among others. For example, the customer contact of companies should become a lot less inefficient.
With Programmable Conversa...