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Govt finalising IT rules for social media to trace original source of info

Messaging giant WhatsApp has, in the past, drawn flak from the government on the issue of message traceability

Small is big: How WhatsApp became go-to platform for many small businesses

A WhatsApp Business account is similar in look and feel to a regular WhatsApp account for a customer. WhatsApp Business is free to download and runs on Android and iOS

Want to transfer money via Whatsapp? Still not official yet in India

The feature is currently in beta but has not been publicly announced because it is not widely available at this moment

Now, WhatApp lets you send money to bank accounts via UPI: Here's how to do

The update is rolling out in batches, so the payments feature is currently available only on some users' WhatsApp

War on fake news: WhatsApp testing 'suspicious link detection' feature

The company is testing this feature in a beta version of its Android app, in a bid to crack down on fake news

WhatsApp to trace the origin of fake messages, set up servers in India

The instant messaging platform had earlier expressed inability in tracing the origin of messages citing privacy of consumers

Telangana IT minister meets Whatsapp CEO Chris Daniels in Hyderabad

Facebook, which owns the messaging and voice over IP service company, has its India development center in Hyderabad

Some progress, but still a long road ahead for WhatsApp with govt

From government officials' perspective, the messaging service has not fulfilled most of the earlier demands, while making a half-hearted attempt

WhatsApp data practices under review for compliance ahead of payments debut

As and when it gets approval, WhatsApp will be entering a crowded digital payments market where it will have to slug it out with more than 80 rivals on the NPCI platform

Why the govt and WhatsApp are at loggerheads over end-to-end encryption

The Centre feels that WhatsApp hasn't done enough to contain the spread of fake news, and wants the social media firm to trace 'malicious' messages to their senders for potential legal action

WhatsApp fixes bug on iOS that showed notification even for muted chats

Until now, even if a chat was on mute, the unread notification still showed up, defeating the purpose of reducing the distracting notifications

WhatsApp may work on multiple devices at same time soon: Report

Currently, WhatsApp users can only have one account on the registered device and if anyone tries to log in to another device, the account on the previous device will be logged out

Indian journalists, activists were spied on using Israeli spyware: WhatsApp

However, it did not say on whose behest the phones of journalists and activists across the world were targeted

WhatsApp introduces fingerprint lock for Android phones to enhance privacy

Users who install the new version of WhatsApp will have to scan a fingerprint to open up the Facebook-owned platform

Data privacy: WhatsApp says it agrees with govt, has taken strong action

The company had said Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entities using an Israeli spyware Pegasus

How spyware Pegasus used WhatsApp servers to infect phones and steal data

Pegasus has been around for three years and is considered one of the most sophisticated spyware in the market

WhatsApp snooping row: Set up SIT to probe issue, NCP tells Centre

Patil claimed Facebook had admitted some 40 people were subjected to snooping of which 14 are from Maharashtra.

Protecting privacy

Pegasus has exposed systemic vulnerabilities

Spyware row: WhatsApp downloads in India down by a staggering 80%

Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, saw downloads in India rise 63 per cent to 9,600 in the same nine days

WhatsApp Pay: Experts warn govt of digital banking risk after snooping row

In May, WhatsApp, which has 400 million users in India, urged its 1.5 billion global users to upgrade the app after discovering the vulnerability.