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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the pleas by Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021. A bench of Justices M R Shah and Sudhanshu Dhulia said CCI is an independent authority and the proceedings before it cannot be stopped, and junked the petitions against the Delhi high court judgment upholding the probe ordered by the chief national competition regulator. “We’ve heard the counsel. No interference of this court is required to be called for. The CCI is an independent authority to consider any violation of the provisions of the Competition Act of 2002…The CCI cannot be dissuaded from investigation and alleged violation of Competition Act, 2002,” the bench held. Any observation made by the high court should be considered as tentative/prima facie, the bench said. The Delhi High Court had on September 28 dismissed a plea by Facebook India challenging the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021. Facebook India had approached the single judge bench after a division bench of the high court in…

WhatsApp has been testing the ‘edit’ feature for sent messages with a select number of users. The ‘edit message’ feature has been in testing for a while and for those unaware, it allows users to edit a sent message within a certain time window. Now, a new feature has been spotted related to WhatsApp’s ‘edit message’ feature. WABetaInfo has released some screenshots related to ‘edit message’ which suggest that the instant messaging app is planning to add a new tag that will let people know if a sent message has been edited. As per the screenshot, WhatsApp will show an ‘Edited’ tag at the bottom of the message. Apart from that, WABetaInfo has also confirmed that WhatsApp will allow users to edit a message within 15 minutes after it is sent. However, do note that the feature is under development. So, don’t expect it to arrive on the stable build anytime soon. Also, there’s no information available when WhatsApp is planning to rollout the feature to the final build. Meanwhile, WhatsApp has also started testing a new paid service for WhatsApp Business users. As a part of the new subscription plan, the app will offer business users a couple of…

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Home News Computing (Image credit: Reliance Industries) Multiple WhatsApp knockoff applications have been discovered stealing the legitimate WhatsApp user access keys, researchers have found. With these keys, the apps’ authors can run all kinds of malicious campaigns, including one where the victims lose their hard-earned money.Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky recently discovered two messaging apps (opens in new tab) for Android, obviously targeting WhatsApp users. One is called YoWhatsApp, and the other WhatsApp Plus. Both these apps offer pretty much the same functionalities as the actual WhatsApp app, and then some. As per the report, YoWhatsApp apparently also comes with a customizable interface, and individual chat room blocks.Stealing access keysWhat users don’t see, however, is these apps stealing legitimate WhatsApp’s access keys and sending them to the knockoff’s authors, giving the attackers access to the victims’ user accounts. According to Kaspersky, the keys can be used in open-source utilities and allow attackers to perform various actions without the user’s consent. Besides actions, the attackers can also eavesdrop on the conversations, steal identity (opens in new tab) data, and similar.The researchers also said the attackers could use this access to subscribe the victims to premium services, charging them in the process and generating income.The…

As per a report from WhatsApp tracker WABetaInfo, the new update enabling users to have an increased group limit will be rolled out soon but for the time being, it has been rolled out to only a limited section of beta testers. The stable update for increased group limit for both Android and iOS is expected to roll out soon. “WhatsApp is now releasing another important feature this week on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS: the ability to add up to 1024 participants to groups.”How to check whether you are one of the lucky WhatsApp beta usersSome lucky users have already received the update and are able to see the expanded member limit while creating a group chat. You can also check whether you have been one of the lucky beta testers by doing the following: However, the only change is with respect to the limit of members. Other than that, the group chat is going to be exactly like how it has always been. This increased group chat limit will help users running big businesses or enterprises in promoting and broadcasting information related to their organisations and selling products as they will be able to communicate with more…

Ozonetel, a leading omnichannel customer communication platform provider, has launched a new full-featured Contact Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) platform on WhatsApp. With this platform, organizations can set up complete contact center operations using WhatsApp and drive down their cost of operations by over 75%. Businesses can expect to increase the number of customer engagements that contact center agents handle by 5X and enhance their omnichannel customer experience far more efficiently. With Ozonetel’s CCaaS platform on WhatsApp, businesses can orchestrate their end-to-end customer communication flow on a unified, homogeneous platform instead of managing different AI, cloud telephony, and chat solutions. They will have access to all the contact center features required to personalize customer communications at scale, including virtual numbers, automatic call distribution, interactive chat response systems, bots, and more. Brands can leverage the investments they have incurred in advertising their toll-free number and continue to use the same number for WhatsApp messages from customers. They can receive calls and WhatsApp messages on the same number and allow the same agents to handle those conversations. Ozonetel’s CCaaS platform has inbuilt AI capabilities that can automate conversations and enable contact center agents to handle multiple WhatsApp conversations at a time resulting in a 400%…

Los Angeles, CA, 11th October, 2022, Chainwire Takeaways: DeSo, a new blockchain that has raised $200 million from Coinbase, Sequoia, and Andreessen Horowitz, just launched decentralized on-chain end-to-end encrypted group chats, a first-of-its-kind innovation.On-chain messages are resistant to censorship and can be used pseudonymously without supplying personal information, just like Bitcoin or Ethereum.DeSo is the only blockchain that supports seamless end-to-end encrypted on-chain messaging today, and the extension to group chats is a first-of-its-kind breakthrough.Apps like Diamond, a Decentralized Twitter app that launched recently, are launching decentralized encrypted group chats on DeSo in the coming weeks. Diamond already supports end-to-end encrypted on-chain direct messages, which DeSo has featured since early 2021. Today, Signal is the most popular private messaging app, and yet users can’t use it without entering a personally-identifying piece of information: their phone number. This makes it so that anyone with access to Signal’s database gets full information about who the user messaging and when. Additionally, because Signal is a centralized service, it has been blocked in major countries like China. Imagine if creating a Bitcoin wallet required users to give up their phone numbers. Why can’t users have the same level of privacy and censorship resistance that they have…

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On July 18, Aishwarya Rao, a long-time WhatsApp user, was at her wit’s end when she decided to take to Twitter. “First it was email, then it was SMS. Now it’s WhatsApp — can’t escape the spam,” Rao tweeted, expressing frustration about her favorite messaging app turning into a spam box. That day, the first 10 messages on her WhatsApp were all boilerplate outreach from corporations, promoting products, deals, and discount coupons. Rao told Rest of World that she first began noticing business outreach messages on WhatsApp at the end of 2021, but, in the past six months, it has become incessant. Verified handles, bearing green check marks, from businesses such as shopping app Flipkart, retail chain Croma, delivery app Zepto, fashion store Lifestyle, insurance provider BankBazaar, and others are flooding her personal WhatsApp chats. “I don’t remember giving explicit permission to most of these businesses . Especially the store ones,” Rao told Rest of Word, over Twitter direct messages. “Since you typically have to provide a number for billing purposes, they don’t ever ask you if they can use it to reach out to you on WhatsApp.” Meta’s WhatsApp is wildly popular…

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