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WhatsApp Delays Privacy Update Over User ‘Confusion,' Backlash About Facebook Data Sharing
The updates related specifically to features that allow users to message and interact with businesses on WhatsApp. Last year, Facebook announced that businesses using WhatsApp could store and manage their chats with customers using Facebook’s “secure hosting infrastructure.”
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Facebook Will Start Charging for WhatsApp Business Services
Facebook said Thursday it will start charging companies for some its WhatsApp Business chat services.
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Facebook Rebuffs US AG Over Encrypted Messages
Facebook is rebuffing efforts by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages. The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Facebook is moving forward with plans to enable end-to-end encryption on all of its messaging services. End-to-end encryption locks up messages so that not...
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Google's Report on Massive iPhone Security Flaw Doubles as Dig Against Apple's Privacy Stance
Google released a compilation of in-depth research on vulnerabilities in Apple’s operating system Thursday night. The research is interesting and comprehensive, but the impact of the flaws on most iPhone users may not be huge. Also, Google is using the compiled research to publicly needle Apple, following Apple’s campaign to differentiates its products on privacy and security. Here are some...
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Spain: Pamplona Kicks Off Running of Bulls Festival
The blast of a traditional firework on Saturday opened nine days of uninterrupted partying in Pamplona’s famed running of the bulls festival. A member of the northern city’s official brass band was chosen for this year’s launch of the rocket, known as the “Chupinazo,” to mark 100 years since the local ensemble’s foundation. Jesús Garísoain addressed an ecstatic crowd from...
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Spain: Pamplona Kicks Off Running of Bulls Festival
The blast of a traditional firework on Saturday opened nine days of uninterrupted partying in Pamplona’s famed running of the bulls festival. A member of the northern city’s official brass band was chosen for this year’s launch of the rocket, known as the “Chupinazo,” to mark 100 years since the local ensemble’s foundation. Jesús Garísoain addressed an ecstatic crowd from...
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India's Ruling Party Claims Win With Assured Lead in Votes
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party claimed it had won reelection with a commanding lead in Thursday’s vote count, while the stock market soared in anticipation of another five-year term for the pro-business Hindu nationalist leader. Election Commission data by midafternoon showed the Bharatiya Janata Party leading in contests for 299 out of 542 seats in the lower house of...
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Back Up After Massive Outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were temporarily down early Sunday. All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were affected by the outage. Downdetector.com, a site that monitors site outages, shows Facebook had been down since 6:30 a.m. EST in much of the world, with thousands of reported outages concentrated in the northeastern U.S., Europe and the Philippines.
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Facebook Won't Let Users Opt Out of a Feature That Lets People Look Up Profiles Using Phone Numbers Provided for Security Reasons
Facebook asked users to add their phone numbers as an extra security measure, but now users are learning their numbers are being used as a way to look up their profiles and even target them with ads, without the option to opt out. TechCrunch first reported the feature after Jeremy Burge, who runs the site Emojipedia, called it out in...
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Feds Have Paid Undercover Informants in Migrant Caravan
The Department of Homeland Security is gathering intelligence from paid undercover informants inside the migrant caravan that is now reaching the California-Mexico border as well as monitoring the text messages of migrants, according to two DHS officials. The 4,000 migrants, mainly from Honduras, have used WhatsApp text message groups as a way to organize and communicate along their journey to...
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Lynn Mom Sets Up Sting to Catch Alleged Child Sex Predator
A Lynn, Massachusetts man is facing a child enticement charge after he allegedly arranged to meet up with an 11-year-old girl for a sexual encounter.
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Mueller's Team Asks to Inspect Witnesses' Personal Phones
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs and potentially view conversations between associates linked to President Donald Trump, sources told CNBC. Since as early as April, Mueller’s team has been asking witnesses in the Russia probe to turn over phones for agents to examine private conversations on...
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WhatsApp Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company Amid Privacy Controversy at Facebook
The co-founder of WhatsApp — the messaging app that Facebook bought in 2014 — is leaving the company, CNBC reported. Jan Koum said in a Facebook post on Monday that it was time to “move on.”
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First Bull Run of Year in Spain Injures Four
At least four people were injured but no one was gored as thousands of thrill-seekers tested their agility and courage by racing alongside fighting bulls through the streets of Pamplona on July, 7 2016. The race in the northern Spanish city in the first bull run of the San Fermin festival. Runners dash along with six bulls down a narrow…
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Facebook Fined $122 million by EU for Giving ‘Misleading Information' on Whatsapp Takeover
Facebook has been fined 110 million euros ($122 million) by European regulators for providing “misleading information” about its acquisition of instant messaging service WhatsApp. The social media giant bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion. The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, said that Facebook told it that there was no possibility to establish “reliable automated matching between Facebook...