WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you
Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out
11 May 2021
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Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch
Updated Nation's IT ministry wants what Brussels is having
19 Jan 2021
Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though
Updated Install base explodes following WhatsApp 'privacy' update, Musk endorsement
15 Jan 2021
If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app
Updated If you don't agree then, well, you'll just have to use the infinitely better Signal
06 Jan 2021
Israeli spyware maker NSO channels Hollywood spy thrillers in appeal for legal immunity in WhatsApp battle
In latest court bout, snooper biz seems to ask: Are you sure you want to open this can of worms?
17 Nov 2020
Facebook is leaky, creepy, and trashy. Now it wants to host some of your customer data
Reveals hosting service for WhatsApp Business API and gives its partners reasons to be fearful
23 Oct 2020
Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software
Brit financial watchdogs foxed by not guilty verdict
01 Oct 2020
WhatsApp India to push pensions, insurance and loans
And use the experience as a template for new products everywhere
23 Jul 2020
Judge green-lights Facebook, WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against spyware biz NSO, unleashing Zuck's lawyers
Legal discovery team could turn up some very interesting, and possibly embarrassing details
17 Jul 2020
Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches
This story also mentions QR codes for maximum facepalm effect
12 Jun 2020
Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services...
Malware maker urges judge to dump lawsuit over WhatsApp phone snooping
01 May 2020
Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music
Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out
24 Apr 2020
Who's essential right now? Medicos, of course. Food producers, natch. And in Singapore social media workers have made the list
The spicy memes must flow even under new ‘circuit breaker’ corona-crackdown
08 Apr 2020
NSO Group: Facebook tried to license our spyware to snoop on its own addicts – the same spyware it's suing us over
Antisocial network sought surveillance tech to boost its creepy Onavo Protect app, it is claimed
03 Apr 2020
British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in
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18 Mar 2020
NSO Group fires back at Facebook: You lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we've got the proof
Israeli biz says Social Network didn't properly serve legal docs
09 Mar 2020
Terrifying bug in WhatsApp allows hackers to steal files. So get patching all nine of you using it on the desktop
Dear Facebook, please keep up with Electron and Chromium fixes, ta
05 Feb 2020
What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal
Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps
20 Dec 2019
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