EU privacy watchdog EDPB on Wednesday gave the Irish data protection agency a month to issue a long-delayed decision on compliance by Facebook’s WhatsApp after its peers objected to its draft finding. The agency, which leads oversight of Facebook because the company’s European headquarters are based in Ireland, has been investigating WhatsApp to see […]
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WhatsApp to let users join group calls after they start
WhatsApp is rolling out a new joinable calls feature which will let users hop onto group calls after they’ve started, the Facebook-owned company announced Monday. According to The Verge, this new feature means you’ll be able to join a call with your friends and family when you’re ready, kind of […]
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WhatsApp banned 2 million accounts in a month under new IT rules
WhatsApp has filed its first monthly grievance redressal report as required under India’s new IT norms, saying it banned two million accounts in India alone from the May 15-June 15 period attempting to send harmful or unwanted messages at scale. More than 95 per cent of such bans are due […]
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WhatsApp rolls out disappearing messages feature to iOS beta users
Months after testing the new feature, the instant messaging app WhatsApp has rolled out the disappearing messages feature titled ‘view once’ to iOS beta users. The new feature is similar to snaps on Snapchat, and according to Mashable, the attached images or videos will disappear after being viewed, which may […]
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WhatsApp experimenting with new feature to allow users send images without compression
Instant messaging platform- WhatsApp is in the works to roll out a new feature that will allow users to send images without compressing them. As per Mashable India, the feature is currently under development by the platform and was spotted by WABetaInfo, a popular website that pushes regular updates around WhatsApp. The feature, as per the report […]
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WhatsApp experimenting with large link preview for iOS users
Instant messaging platform- WhatsApp is in the works to roll out new features for iOS users in order to ramp up their experience on the platform. According to Mashable India, the developers are currently working on a large link preview for iOS to make it easier for users to check out what the links are all about. The […]
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WhatsApp may enable multi-device support for users with end-to-end encryption
The instant messaging app, Whatsapp is reportedly going to make multi-device support available for users with end-to-end encryption. According to Mashable, a popular website named ‘WABetaInfo’, which pushes regular updates around the instant messaging app, took to Twitter to announce the update on Tuesday. WhatsApp secures its user’s private messages with end-to-end encryption that permits only those […]
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Axis Bank makes banking conversational; enables secured communication over WhatsApp
Karix Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanla Platforms, India’s largest CPaaS provider, announced the deployment of a conversational banking solution- WhatsApp Business- for India’s third-largest private sector bank, Axis Bank. Using the solution, Axis Bank customers can now start a WhatsApp chat with the bank to conduct frequent banking activities on the […]
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WhatsApp might soon allow users to verify log-in with new ‘Flash Calls’ feature
It has recently come to light that WhatsApp is working on a ‘Flash Call’ feature that will verify user log-in on WhatsApp via a ‘flash call’ instead of the usual 6-digit verification code. This will let users log in to their WhatsApp account quickly and safely. According to Mashable, new reports state that WhatsApp is working on a […]
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WhatsApp users will soon be able to access their account from 4 devices
Facebook-owned instant messaging application WhatsAap will soon allow support on multiple devices at the same time. The company also confirmed that it will roll out more new features including disappearing mode’ across all chat threads along with a ‘view once’ option as well. As per The Verge, the multi-device support feature will be entering […]
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WhatsApp Is Suing The Indian Government To Protect People’s Privacy
Messaging service WhatsApp is suing the Indian government in the Delhi High Court, challenging new rules that would force it to break its encryption, potentially revealing the identities of people who had sent and received billions of messages on its platform. Reuters first reported the lawsuit, which a WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed to […]
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WhatsApp rolls out stickers to spread Covid-19 vaccine awareness
WhatsApp has rolled out a new sticker pack named ‘Vaccines for All’ as a piece of the organisation’s endeavours towards spreading mindfulness about the COVID-19 vaccine. As per Mashable, these stickers are a mode of allowing users to show their appreciation for healthcare workers around the world. The new sticker pack […]
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WhatsApp launches voice and video calling from desktop
Facebook-owned messaging platform Whatsapp has launched voice and video calling from the desktop. WhatsApp’s latest update comes as the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the importance of services like Zoom, to hold meetings, group calls between employees during work from home. “To make desktop calling more useful, we made sure it […]
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WhatsApp to suspend messaging for users who choose not to accept new changes
WhatsApp users will not be able to read or send messages after May 15 if they do not accept the app’s updated terms and conditions of their privacy policy. The phone messaging service will display a banner alert in the coming weeks prompting users to sign up. Messaging will be switched […]
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Sandes Is the Government’s Own WhatsApp: Everything You Need to Know
Sandes, an Indian government alternative to WhatsApp and other instant messaging apps, has been launched by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). The new platform is an upgrade to the existing Government Instant Messaging System (GIMS) that was developed to provide government officials with a WhatsApp-like communication app. The Sandes app […]