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While chats are end-to-end encrypted, their backups are not – this may change soon WhatsApp is said to be working to add encryption for chat backups that will allow users to easily secure their conversations when storing them in the cloud. While the company does currently offer end-to-end encryption for . . . Read more
by Harriet Stone TikTok is a video-sharing social media platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, where users make and share short-form videos that range from three seconds to one minute long. It’s the latest app to take its turn on the social media throne, following MySpace in 2005, Facebook in . . . Read more
Two new tools will warn users about the risks of searching for and sharing content that exploits children, including the potential legal consequences of doing so Facebook has announced a pair of new tools to help combat child abuse and exploitation content on its platform and apps. While one tool aims . . . Read more
Sharing your thoughts or photos for the world to see is now as easy as pushing a button, but even a seemingly harmless post may come back to haunt you Facebook, the white and blue social media behemoth, has been part of our lives for exactly 17 years. Some of . . . Read more
Millions of people flock to Signal and Telegram as WhatsApp scrambles to assuage users’ concerns A little more than a week after announcing changes to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, WhatsApp is now postponing the enforcement of the new data sharing rules until May 15th. “We’re now moving back . . . Read more
A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google.
Many users have until February 8 to accept the new rules – or else lose access to the app UPDATE (January 18th, 2021): WhatsApp announced that it would postpone the rollout of the new data-sharing practices. In a major update to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, WhatsApp is . . . Read more
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It may be impossible to delete your personal information from Houseparty and other social media services – despite privacy legislation! My colleague Jake Moore recently published a blogpost Houseparty – should I stay or should I go now? The post intrigued me, not just for the title taken from the . . . Read more
Cybercriminals can use social media in many ways in order to trick employees.