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Meta’s WhatsApp rolls out Liquid Glass redesign to iOS 26 users
WhatsApp’s latest iOS update, version 25.28.75, is now available on the App Store, introducing Apple’s sleek new Liquid Glass design…
Meta’s WhatsApp hits 100 million monthly users in the U.S.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed this week that WhatsApp has surpassed 100 million monthly active users in the United States…
Apple pulls Threads, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal from App Store in China after CCP order
Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms’ Threads and WhatsApp apps from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so…
Apple: We’d pull iMessage and FaceTime from the UK rather than destroy end-to-end encryption if controversial law passes
Apple says it would pull services such as iMessage and FaceTime from the UK rather than obliterate customers’ security and privacy if new…
Apple opposes UK bill that could mandate backdoor scanning in iMessage
Apple is the Online Safety Bill as it could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal and other to scan;
Meta’s Zuckerberg takes aim at Apple’s iMessage new ad
Facebook- and Instagram-partent Meta is targeting Apple’s iMessage in a new advertisement touting Meta’s WhatsApp’s…
Facebook-parent Meta sued for bypassing Apple privacy rules to track users
Facebook-parent Meta Platform was sued on Wednesday for allegedly building a secret work-around to privacy safeguards that Apple launched…
Facebook-parent Meta falls off the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies
Shares of Meta (FB), parent to societal cancer Facebook, slid past a major milestone on Thursday when the company unceremoniously fell off…
Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple to handle their personal data
According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted November 4-22, 2021, Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple…
U.S. states plan to sue Facebook over antitrust violations next week
A group of U.S. states is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit against the social media giant…
Jeff Bezos’ hacked iPhone had Apple’s vaunted security, and that may have helped its alleged hackers
A security report last week alleged that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received a WhatsApp message laden with code that secretly hacked…
Facebook’s WhatsApp blamed for Jeff Bezos’ iPhone hack
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ iPhone may have been hacked after he received a message via Facebook’s WhatsApp, from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince…
Private messaging apps ‘scrambling’ to overhaul software following Apple privacy changes
With iOS 13, Apple introduced a change that limits data collection practices using VoIP APIs….
FTC chairman says he’s willing to break up Big Tech companies
The head of the US Federal Trade Commission said he’s prepared to break up major technology platforms if necessary…
Apple to restrict Facebook’s messaging apps VoIP feature
Apple Inc is making a change to its mobile operating system that will restrict a feature that apps like Facebook Inc’s Messenger and WhatsApp…
NSO Group says it can scrape data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft cloud services
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data…
Apple condemns British spy agency group’s proposal to destroy message encryption
Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp have co-signed an open letter urging the UK government…
It’s almost impossible to tell if your iPhone has been hacked
Hackers have been breaking into iPhones allegedly using a powerful spy tool sold to governments…
Facebook launches WhatsApp Business for iOS
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a business version of its WhatsApp messaging app for Apple Inc’s iOS..
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton renews call for users to delete Facebook
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook, but…
Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’
Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…
Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung
Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…
Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…
How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac
With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…
Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively
Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga is not going away quietly, underscored by Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Facebook points fingers Google, Amazon and Twitter for also harvesting user data
Facebook wants users to know that it’s not the only one tracking their every move on the internet…
Beleaguered Facebook may face billions in fines over facial recognition tool storing biometric data without user consent
Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company…
I was one of the very first people on Facebook. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg
Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…
Facebook AI predicts your future and sells this info to advertisers
Facebook’s artificial intelligence software can predict your future behaviour and sells this information to advertisers…
Why there shouldn’t be a ‘next Facebook’
Social media networks are like cigarettes…
Zuckerberg admits Facebook collects data on non-users
We’ve already learned quite a bit from Mark Zuckerberg’s grilling on Capitol Hill….
Facebook is lying about your data
Mark Zuckerberg’s Congress testimony following the Cambridge Analytica breach…
Apple co-founder Woz deactivates Facebook account
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced that he has quit Facebook…
How Facebook lets brands and politicians target users
When Facebook introduced its ad platform in 2007, advertisers could target people using information they had volunteered…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg was ready to slam Apple if Congress asked him about Tim Cook’s privacy comments
It started when Cook was asked what he would do if he were faced with the problems facing Facebook…
How to remove your Facebook data from macOS
Whether you’re planning on keeping your Facebook account, are debating deleting it, or already have…
Apple CEO Cook: ‘Privacy to us is a human right… a civil liberty’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington D.C. Tuesday to testify before Congress about customer privacy…
Should Apple create a social network that doesn’t abuse, but protects user privacy?
Recently, Tim Cook gave multiple interviews on Apple’s commitment to protecting their privacy…
Apple co-founder Woz quits Facebook
Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said he’s leaving Facebook amid concerns about privacy and data violations…
