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WhatsApp channels cross 500 million monthly active users mark: Zuckerberg

15Nov

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Business

WhatsApp channels cross 500 million monthly active users mark: Zuckerberg

The Founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday announced that WhatsApp Channels has now exceeded a monthly active user base of 500 million. “500 million monthly activities on WhatsApp Channels in the first 7 weeks! Great to see the WA community so engaged,” said Mark Zuckerberg, while announcing the news on his WhatsApp Channel. Recently launched as a feature on WhatsApp, channels allow users to get updates from people, organisations, and teams that they follow on the messaging platform. Channels are separate from private chats, and who users choose to follow is not visible to other followers. Some popular Indian WhatsApp channels include the International Cricket Council, Mumbai Indians, Indian Cricket Team, Diljit Dosanjh, Katrina Kaif, All...

14Nov

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Entertainment

5 countries where WhatsApp is banned

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15Sep

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Technology

Welcome to Halal Hinge | WIRED

Swoosh. Ping. Slow and studied scrolling. Typing with the index finger. My mother is on the prowl for a man. Not for herself, of course, but for any of her three daughters, all of whom have the great misfortune of being single in their late twenties and early thirties. “I’m depressed,” she tells us when the subject of suitors comes up. She, a Bangladeshi woman who got married at 19 and had three kids by 27, can’t believe that none of us have procured a husband or given her any grandchildren. So, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She is now part of several WhatsApp groups where hundreds of fussy parents are on the hunt.Instead of debating the merits of The Office or pineapple on pizza as one does on Hinge, mums and aunties in these groups discuss deal-breakers such as level o...

Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Online Safety Bill

6Sep

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Technology

Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Online Safety Bill

Tech companies and privacy activists are claiming victory after an eleventh-hour concession by the British government in a long-running battle over end-to-end encryption.The so-called “spy clause” in the UK’s Online Safety Bill, which experts argued would have made end-to-end encryption all but impossible in the country, will no longer be enforced after the government admitted the technology to securely scan encrypted messages for signs of child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, without compromising users’ privacy, doesn’t yet exist. Secure messaging services, including WhatsApp and Signal, had threatened to pull out of the UK if the bill was passed.“It’s absolutely a victory,” says Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, which operates the Signal messaging service. Whittake...

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

6Sep

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Technology

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet

Plenty of other ideas have also been tacked onto the bill. The current text includes age checks for porn sites and measures against scam ads and nonconsensual sharing of nude images.“The Online Safety Bill basically reintroduces mass surveillance and says, ‘We have to search every phone.’”Alan Woodward, visiting professor in cybersecurity at the University of Surrey.As the bill nears passage into law, the most contentious—and, in the short term, consequential—dispute over its content is not about what online content should be illegal online, but about the privacy implications of the government’s proposals. The current draft says that platforms such as messaging apps will need to use “accredited technology” to scan messages for CSAM material. That, tech companies and cybersecurity experts ...