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India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he sa...

India is among the top three nations contributing active users growth for Facebook as of December 31, 2022, social media major Meta said in a regulatory filing. The company has reported a 4 percent increase in worldwide daily active users (DAUs) to 2 billion on average during December 2022 from 1.93 billion during December 2021.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed WhatsApp to widely publicise its undertaking given to the Centre in 2021 stand its users in India do not have to accept its 2021 privacy policy in order to use it. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice KM Joseph asked WhatsApp to give advertisement in five newspapers to publicise its undertaking giv...

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

Meta has settled the lawsuit claiming that Facebook has illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica. The settlement comes after it was revealed a month ago that Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Meta, would have to sit for a six hours long questioning by the plaintiff’s lawyers.

WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021 has not been withdrawn, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) told the Delhi High Court on Monday, while stating that its probe concerning the policy should be allowed to proceed. The CCI on its own had decided to look into WhatsApp's updated privacy policy after the company began to show a popup to u...

Facebook parent Meta has started sending out notification to users to inform them about privacy policy update which will roll out from July 26. Meta has rewritten and re-designed its privacy Policy to make it easier to understand.

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced on Thursday that it has redesigned and rewritten its privacy policy completely for ease of understanding, including the terms of services, effective from July 26.

WhatsApp will reportedly make accepting its terms of service optional for users. Only those who want to message certain business accounts will need to review and accept the updated terms of service, as per the report.

Facebook is gearing up to release its own podcast platform on June 22. Alongside, it will allow users to create short clips from their favourite podcasts and post them on Facebook pages. The upcoming feature for Facebook was first reported by The Verge. The episodes published on Facebook will be visible under a new Podcasts tab on the publisher's p...

Facebook has been banned from processing personal data of WhatsApp users by German’s lead data protection regulator because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal. WhatsApp says the action rested on a fundamental misunderstanding.

WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts. WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook.

WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts.

Germany's lead data protection regulator for Facebook said that it was taking action against the social network to prevent the collection of personal data from users of its WhatsApp messaging app.

Facebook has been accused of not policing its own rule of barring apps from sharing sensitive medical data of users. Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York financial services department on Thursday.

India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he sa...

India is among the top three nations contributing active users growth for Facebook as of December 31, 2022, social media major Meta said in a regulatory filing. The company has reported a 4 percent increase in worldwide daily active users (DAUs) to 2 billion on average during December 2022 from 1.93 billion during December 2021.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed WhatsApp to widely publicise its undertaking given to the Centre in 2021 stand its users in India do not have to accept its 2021 privacy policy in order to use it. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice KM Joseph asked WhatsApp to give advertisement in five newspapers to publicise its undertaking giv...

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

Meta has settled the lawsuit claiming that Facebook has illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica. The settlement comes after it was revealed a month ago that Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Meta, would have to sit for a six hours long questioning by the plaintiff’s lawyers.

WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021 has not been withdrawn, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) told the Delhi High Court on Monday, while stating that its probe concerning the policy should be allowed to proceed. The CCI on its own had decided to look into WhatsApp's updated privacy policy after the company began to show a popup to u...

Facebook parent Meta has started sending out notification to users to inform them about privacy policy update which will roll out from July 26. Meta has rewritten and re-designed its privacy Policy to make it easier to understand.

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced on Thursday that it has redesigned and rewritten its privacy policy completely for ease of understanding, including the terms of services, effective from July 26.

WhatsApp will reportedly make accepting its terms of service optional for users. Only those who want to message certain business accounts will need to review and accept the updated terms of service, as per the report.

Facebook is gearing up to release its own podcast platform on June 22. Alongside, it will allow users to create short clips from their favourite podcasts and post them on Facebook pages. The upcoming feature for Facebook was first reported by The Verge. The episodes published on Facebook will be visible under a new Podcasts tab on the publisher's p...

Facebook has been banned from processing personal data of WhatsApp users by German’s lead data protection regulator because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal. WhatsApp says the action rested on a fundamental misunderstanding.

WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts. WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook.

WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts.

Germany's lead data protection regulator for Facebook said that it was taking action against the social network to prevent the collection of personal data from users of its WhatsApp messaging app.

Facebook has been accused of not policing its own rule of barring apps from sharing sensitive medical data of users. Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York financial services department on Thursday.