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WhatsApp Claims to Share Only Limited Payment Data With Facebook
11Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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WhatsApp Claims to Share Only Limited Payment Data With Facebook

The well-known messaging app Whatsapp has stated that it shares only limited data of payment service with its owner firm Facebook and the parent company does not utilize the data for the commercial purpose. The messaging app has been lately working on its payment feature had to postpone the launch due to the ongoing Facebook data scam. Whatsapp payments service has partnered with UPI to launch an in-app payment service on its platform and, at present, is in beta version in India. Its users are concerned how much of their information is being shared with Facebook and how is the social media using it. This is the reason why WhatsApp has been compelled to put up an explanation in this regard. On its official website, Whatsapp claimed, "Facebook does not use WhatsApp payment information fo...
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Facebook Bug Changed The Privacy Settings of 14 Million Users
8Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments
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Facebook Bug Changed The Privacy Settings of 14 Million Users

The most popular online social media platform Facebook recognized a technical malfunction on Thursday due to which the default privacy settings of around 14 million users were changed, making their posts public even if they were determined to be private. The Facebook users who thought they might be sharing their content privately only with their friends unintentionally shared their posts with everyone on the platform because of the software bug. The company yet again failed to keep the information of millions of users private. The company blamed a software bug for this problem and stated that it went back and reclassified the affected posts to the user's default setting before the bug, and the problem has now been resolved. Also, it has been mentioned that Facebook will notify and in...
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Whatsapp Also Admitted That Its Sharing Users Information
7Apr By NitishNo Comments
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Whatsapp Also Admitted That Its Sharing Users Information

World's leading chat messenger WhatsApp partially admitted on the media reports that it is keeping track of the messages and also collects data of users, even after end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp the popular instant messaging service with over 200 million active users in India might not be as secure as being claimed. Questions were also being raised over certain provisions of the user agreement wherein most of its wrongdoings would go un-remedied and unchallenged. A representative of a WhatsApp said to the media, "That we collect very little data and every message is end-to-end encrypted. Contrary to recent comments in the media, we are not keeping track of the friends and family you have messaged. The privacy and security of our users are incredibly important to WhatsApp. The invi...
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UK Summons Mark Zuckerberg Over 50 Million Profiles Data Leak
21Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments
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UK Summons Mark Zuckerberg Over 50 Million Profiles Data Leak

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO has been summoned before a UK parliamentary committee due to a growing discontent over data leakages related to the social media network. The chair of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS), Damian Collins sent the letter addressed to the American billionaire. The DCMS is in charge of leading the investigation over the matter of fake news. “It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process,” the letter mentions. "Given your commitment at the start of the new year to fixing Facebook, I hope that this representative will be you," it adds. The letter was sent shortly after UKs Information Commissioner Elizabeth Den...
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