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Whatsapp Privacy
How a cross-border love story illustrates the extent of WhatsApp surveillance in India
Nachiket Deuskar
· Feb 23, 2023 · 11:30 am
SC dismisses plea by WhatsApp to stay inquiry into its new privacy policy
Scroll Staff
· Oct 15, 2022 · 08:35 am
Investigation: Your WhatsApp messages are far less private than you think
Peter Elkind, ProPublica Jack Gillum, ProPublica Craig Silverman, ProPublica
· Sep 09, 2021 · 01:30 pm
Right to privacy not absolute, says Centre after WhatsApp challenges new social media rules
Scroll Staff
· May 26, 2021 · 06:21 pm
WhatsApp indicates it will go ahead with privacy policy amid backlash
Scroll Staff
· Feb 19, 2021 · 12:37 pm
WhatsApp says new policy does not affect privacy of messages among friends and family
Scroll Staff
· Jan 12, 2021 · 02:00 pm
Manipur engineer detects WhatsApp bug that breaches privacy, enters Facebook ‘Hall of Fame’
Scroll Staff
· Jun 11, 2019 · 02:24 pm
To tackle its privacy problem, Facebook wants to be more like WhatsApp
Sacha Molitorisz, The Conversation
· Mar 14, 2019 · 11:30 pm
WhatsApp needs to address its massive fake news problem – here’s where it can start
Nikhil Pahwa, medianama.com
· Jul 05, 2018 · 12:30 pm
Centre tells Supreme Court it will frame regulations to protect user data
Scroll Staff
· Jul 22, 2017 · 12:19 pm
Supreme Court seeks reply from Centre, Trai on privacy policy for social networking apps
Scroll Staff
· Jan 16, 2017 · 05:02 pm
WhatsApp defies court order on user data, to share information with Facebook as planned, says report
Scroll Staff
· Sep 29, 2016 · 05:17 pm
German watchdog orders Facebook to stop collecting, storing data on WhatsApp users in the country
Scroll Staff
· Sep 27, 2016 · 06:40 pm
Delhi High Court issues notice to government on WhatsApp’s decision to share user data with Facebook
Scroll Staff
· Aug 30, 2016 · 10:19 pm
WhatsApp will use your data to target ads at you. But everything else on your phone is doing so too
Mayank Jain
· Aug 26, 2016 · 09:31 pm
WhatsApp to share users' phone numbers, device information with Facebook
Scroll Staff
· Aug 25, 2016 · 06:21 pm
WhatsApp in Kashmir: When Big Brother wants to go beyond watching you
Pranesh Prakash Vidushi Marda
· Apr 28, 2016 · 08:00 am
