Tag: whatsapp
  • Feb 1, 2021 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media,

UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk”

The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom (UK) really really don’t want Facebook to bring end to end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram. In fact, a police chief went so far as to say that offering end to end encryption would “’unequivocally put lives at risk.” The words were uttered by Detective Chief Superintendent … Continue reading “UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk””

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 15, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of January 15th, 2021 Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement A new report from the Brennan Center of Justice highlights how much information that law enforcement is able to siphon from the “smart” internet of things connected … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 15, 2021”

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  • Jan 14, 2021 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

Apple’s new privacy labels show how data hungry Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are

The rollout of privacy labels in all apps available in the iOS app store has revealed the massive amount of information that Facebook collects through Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. This revelation has seemingly burst the bubble around WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and started an exodus to end-to-end encrypted messaging apps that have a better track … Continue reading “Apple’s new privacy labels show how data hungry Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 18th, 2020 WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger has taken a public stance against Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels. WhatsApp provided the requested privacy information to Apple by the required deadline, but the messaging company also took to the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020”

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  • Dec 10, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive

Facebook’s WhatsApp is publicly protesting Apple’s privacy nutrition labels, calling the privacy labels “anti-competitive.” WhatsApp wishes its iOS users to know that the messaging app isn’t as privacy violating as it may seem based on the labels. WhatsApp has turned in the privacy nutrition labels to Apple – but also published a blogpost to lay … Continue reading “WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive”

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  • Sep 17, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal

Privacy flaws in contact discovery have led to a research team being able to enumerate all American Signal users. Enumeration means that using the contact discovery built into the Signal app, researchers were able to perform a large-scale crawling attack and figure out which American phone numbers were attached to a Signal account. The new … Continue reading “Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal”

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  • May 27, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Top EU data protection agency under pressure to act against Internet giants as GDPR turns 2 years old

A few weeks ago, this blog noted that there were questions hanging over the GDPR, not least the fact that no major fines had been issued against top Internet companies. The GDPR has just passed the two-year mark, and many have taken the opportunity to weigh in on this issue. For example, the data protection … Continue reading “Top EU data protection agency under pressure to act against Internet giants as GDPR turns 2 years old”

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  • Feb 25, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Many WhatsApp private groups are indexed in Google and open to the public

Many WhatsApp private groups were left exposed on the open web due to a privacy-ignoring configuration error by Facebook’s WhatsApp. The discovery was made by Jordan Wilson, a journalist for DW.com. He noticed that the “Invite to Group via Link” function for WhatsApp private groups creates a link that, when posted on the public internet, … Continue reading “Many WhatsApp private groups are indexed in Google and open to the public”

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  • Oct 16, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, Guides, Social Media,

How to unblock WhatsApp

How do you unblock WhatsApp if you are unable to use it on your internet? WhatsApp is blocked by default on many school or office networks, and also by some governments for all of their citizens. In such situations, WhatsApp users need a little help to be able to access the free, most popular chat … Continue reading “How to unblock WhatsApp”

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  • Sep 30, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

New treaty will allow UK to request data, not backdoor, from US social media companies like WhatsApp

Social media apps like WhatsApp will be obligated to share what they share with the US with the UK under a proposed United States, United Kingdom treaty called the CLOUD Act. From what security experts are gleaming from the law, the CLOUD ACT opens up data requests that WhatsApp usually fills for the US for … Continue reading “New treaty will allow UK to request data, not backdoor, from US social media companies like WhatsApp”

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