Facebook shows signs of life after hours-long outage
Following a major outage that brought down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for nearly six hours on Monday, the social media giant's flagship services are lurching back to life.
AppleInsider Staff
Facebook, Instagram, and other services seeing widespread outage [u]
Facebook and its various services — including Instagram and WhatsApp — are currently experiencing a widespread outage that is seemingly being caused by DNS problems.
Mike Peterson
Mark Zuckerberg may have lied to Congress about who can see WhatsApp messages
The Facebook-owned WhatsApp regularly boasts of using end-to-end encryption and keeping communications between users private, but a report alleges that some monitoring of messages does take place, and that Mark Zuckerberg may not have told the truth to the U.S. Senate.
Malcolm Owen
WhatsApp hit with record $267 million fine in Ireland
Ireland has issued its highest ever fine for breaches of GDPR privacy regulations — and Europe's second highest — to Facebook-owned WhatsApp.
William Gallagher
WhatsApp beta reveals native iPad app is on the way
WhatsApp is working on adding multi-device support, with a beta of the messaging app revealing it will finally work on an iPad, years after the service's launch.
WhatsApp to enable chat history transfers between iOS and Android
WhatsApp on Wednesday announced an upcoming feature that will allow users to transfer chat histories between iOS to Android, effectively relieving a major pain point for users attempting to switch platforms.
WhatsApp latest to pile on Apple over Child Safety tools
WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart on Friday dinged Apple's plan to roll out new Child Safety features that scan user photos to find offending images, the latest in a string of criticism from tech experts who suggest the system flouts user privacy.
WhatsApp CEO takes issue with NSO's denials of iPhone Pegasus hacks
WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart has problems with the NSO Group taking no responsibility for surveillance and hacking of journalist and activist iPhones and other devices.
WhatsApp beta-tests group call and banned account review changes on iOS
WhatsApp is testing ways to make it easier for banned accounts to ask for a review on iOS, at the same time as making changes to calls so that a user can easily join a group call.
Amber Neely
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