The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said. The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook; which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, […]
Social media users are reporting a glitch in the WhatsApp and Facebook apps due to which the date of “Jan 1970” is appearing within chats and on posts. Users of WhatsApp and Facebook shared images that show they received missed calls on “1 Jan 1970”. They were wondering why is this happening. “Does anyone know […]
Google has threatened to block Australian users from accessing its search service; unless the government changes proposed legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content. Google Australia Managing Director Mel Silva told a senate committee in Canberra on Friday; that if the current draft media laws went ahead unchanged; it would […]
WhatsApp is battling mistrust globally after it updated its privacy policy to let it share some user data with parent Facebook and other group firms, and the backlash risks thwarting its ambitions in its biggest market, India. Though WhatsApp has yet to see mass uninstalls of its app in India; users concerned about privacy are […]
Amid row over reports of WhatsApp users alleging leak of their private messages with family and friends on search engines, the Facebook-owned messaging service has issued yet another clarification. However, WhatsApp has said the change in its recently revised policy “does not affect the privacy of messages with friends or family”. “Instead, this update includes […]
WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy has left many users confused regarding the new rules of the app. Khilji, who is also a director of the digital rights organization Bolo Bhi, said that one-to-one conversations between users will “remain encrypted”. However, he explained WhatsApp will now provide “some information” to its parent company Facebook. Khilji said WhatsApp […]
Facebook Inc and Instagram will extend a ban on US President Donald Trump’s accounts; for at least the next two weeks until the presidential transition completed, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service; during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg said […]
ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday wrote to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, asking for the firm to place a similar ban on Islamophobia and hate against Islam that has been put in place for the Holocaust. The letter has been sent amid an anti-Islam campaign launched by France as state as its […]
Facebook is accused of spying on Instagram users by secretly accessing their smartphone CAMERAS for ‘market research’. Instagram and its parent company are being sued for allegedly spying on users with their mobile phone cameras. The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco federal court Thursday by a New Jersey Instagram user Brittany Conditi, who […]
