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News highlights for 3 October 2017 UK says WhatsApp lets paedophiles and gangsters operate beyond the law MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Britain said WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption communication services allowed paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law and called on the messaging service to move faster to help governments catch […]
News highlights for 5 September 2017 Western Digital offers to back out of Toshiba bid for better JV position TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba shares rose more than 4 percent on Wednesday after sources told Reuters that Western Digital Corp has offered to drop out of a group bidding for its flash memory chip business to […]
(Reuters) – WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved, the company said. “Earlier today, WhatsApp users in all parts of the world were unable to access the service for a few hours. We have now fixed the issue and […]
The European Commission will propose new measures in June to make it easier for police to access data on internet messaging apps like WhatsApp, EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová said yesterday (28 March), heeding calls from national interior ministers. Jourová said she will announce “three or four options” including binding legislation and voluntary agreements with […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Technology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday. Local media have reported that British-born Khalid Masood sent an encrypted message moments before killing four people last week by ploughing […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Messaging services such as Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s WhatsApp face stricter rules on how they handle customer data under new security laws due to be proposed by the European Union, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. The EU executive wants to extend some rules that now only apply to telecom […]
News highlights for 27 September Facebook will appeal German directive over WhatsApp data FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Facebook said it would appeal against an order by a German privacy regulator on Tuesday to stop collecting and storing data of German users of its messaging app WhatsApp and to delete all data that has already been forwarded […]
News highlights – August 25 Facebook ramps up targeted advertising WhatsApp, Facebook Inc’s popular messaging service, will start sharing users’ phone numbers with its parent, allowing for more relevant advertisements and friend recommendations on the social network. Read more… Singapore first with driverless taxis SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The first driverless taxi began work on Thursday […]
Internet companies like WhatsApp and Skype are worried they’ll have to comply with new EU telecoms laws for the first time when the European Commission proposes a legislative overhaul this September. The EU executive is about to introduce a set of new telecoms laws, some of which will apply to online messaging services that have […]
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messaging service resumed in Brazil on Tuesday after an appeals court overturned a suspension and many of the application’s 100 million users in the country voiced outrage. WhatsApp was cut off in Brazil at 2 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Monday after a judge in the remote […]
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