WhatsApp May Let You Share Photos in Their Original Quality Soon
WhatsApp, a Meta-owned app, is working on letting users share photos in their original quality without any compression.
Instagram Fined $402 Million Over Handling of Teens’ Data
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has been fined a record $402 million for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses.
Meta Will Add More Paid Features to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Meta is adding more paid features to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in a bid to recoup declining advertising revenue.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Were Down in Major Outage
It's not just you: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR are currently down. The Facebook-owned services all use a shared infrastructure and are unreachable in multiple regions since about 11:41 AM eastern time.
LAPD Collects Social Media Info of Civilians to Conduct Mass Surveillance
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every person they stop and interview, which could be used to surveil targetted groups en masse according to a new report.
WhatsApp’s Head Calls Apple’s Child Safety Update ‘Surveillance’
Just one day after Apple confirmed that it plans to roll out new software that will detect child abuse imagery on iPhones, WhatsApp's head took to Twitter to call out the move as a "surveillance system" that could be abused.
WhatsApp Adds Snapchat-Like, View Once, Disappearing Photos
Facebook's WhatsApp chat application is adding a feature that was initially popularized by Snapchat: view once, disappearing photos and videos. The app is rolling out support for the feature this week.