WhatsApp will re-introduce controversial new privacy policy

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Engadget

WhatsApp plans to re-introduce the updated privacy policy that ignited a massive backlash against the Facebook-owned messaging app. The company said it will notify users of the new privacy policy “in the coming weeks,” and provide more information ab...

Telegram makes it easier to import your WhatsApp chat history

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Engadget

Telegram is still dealing with a influx of WhatsApp users upset over a new privacy policy, and it’s making sure those converts will feel more at home. WABetaInfo has noticed that the latest version of Telegram for iOS (Android users had to wait as of...

An automated Telegram bot is selling Facebook account phone numbers

Posted on 26/01/2021 by Engadget

Access to a database reportedly containing 500 million users’ private information is being sold on a cybercrime forum. Motherboard reports that the database, which hosts data pulled from Facebook more than two years ago, contains people’s phone numbe...

Telegram took down ‘hundreds’ of calls for violence from public US channels

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

With just two days before Wednesday’s presidential inauguration, Telegram said it has spent much of the last two weeks monitoring the situation in the US and subsequently taking enforcement action. In a post to his public channel spotted by The Verge...

WhatsApp reassures users it can’t read their messages

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Engadget

WhatsApp has been forced to further clarify changes to its privacy policy, saying that it will not have access to its users private communications. In a tweet, the Facebook-owned platform says that it will “continue to protect your private messages w...

Senator asks social networks, carriers to preserve evidence from Capitol riot

Posted on 09/01/2021 by Engadget

Tech companies are under pressure to support officials investigating the Capitol Hill riot. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia has sent letters to eleven tech companies urging them to preserve evidence linked to the mob that invaded the House and Senate...

Telegram channels will start getting ads next year

Posted on 23/12/2020 by Engadget

Nearly eight years after its initial launch and with almost 500 million users to its name, encrypted chat app Telegram finds itself at an inflection point: it either needs to monetize its platform or find a buyer. In a post over on his Telegram chann...

A Telegram bot network is being used to create deepfake nudes

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Engadget

A security firm called Sensity says it recently discovered a network of deepfake bots on chat app Telegram creating computer-generated naked images of women on request. As of July 2020, the firm found that the bots have generated deepfakes of approxi...

Telegram’s one-on-one video calls are live on Android and iOS

Posted on 15/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Video calling has finally arrived on Telegram. The secure messaging app promised group video calls earlier this year at the beginning of coronavirus-related lockdowns, which made applications like Zoom and Google Meet more popular than ever. It has y...

US officials seize cryptocurrency accounts tied to al-Qaeda and ISIS

Posted on 13/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

US authorities have dismantled financing campaigns for three terrorist organizations, which included “the government’s largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency in the terrorism context,” according to the Department of Justice. The Internal Revenue Serv...

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