Meta cracks down on scams
Closes two million pig butchering accounts
Meta said it has removed more than two million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that have allegedly forced hundreds of thousands of people into scamming roles and cost victims billions of dollars worldwide.
NSO Group operates Pegasus Spyware
It wasn’t its government customers after all
Legal documents released during the ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed that the Israeli cyberweapons maker’s customers do not do dirty work.
Google forcing better Gemini integration in WhatsApp
Part of its cunning plan to replace Google Assistant
Search engine outfit Google is working on making its Gemini AI project more tightly integrated with WhatsApp.
Big Tech mulls leaving the UK
Too much post Brexit regulation
Big Tech is considering leaving the UK because they are being swamped with more regulation than they see in the EU.
Rise and Fall of Skype
How Microsoft messed up
CNBC has created a 15-minute video The Rise and Fall of Skype which explains how the messaging app was ruined by the software king of the world Microsoft.
WhatsApp users can edit messages
If they are quick
WhatsApp users can finally edit their messages.
Spain wants to abandon end-to-end encryption
Claims it is about protecting children
Spain wants to ban encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union and has strong support among EU member states for proposals to scanning private messages for illegal content.
WhatsApp will ignore autocratic British end-to-end encryption laws
Only autocratic regimes who make peasants eat turnips do this sort of thing
The salad-strapped UK government's planned move to outlaw end-to-end encryption has already found a conscious objector in the form of WhatsApp.
WhatsApp fined €5.5 million by Irish
GDPR kicks in making Meta's eyes water
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission backed a German complaint against WhatsApp and slapped a €5.5 million fine on the company.
Facebook could be forced to flog Instagram and WhatsApp
Details of multi-state law suits emerge
Social notworking site Facebook could be forced to flog off Instagram and WhatsApp to make a flurry of US lawsuits go away.