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A police sergeant shared "digusting" secret photographs of his female colleagues on a WhatsApp group titled 'Would you Wouldn't you'. The officer is alleged to have been caught running the group, which contained dozens of pictures showing the backsides and crotch areas of female officers or staff as they went about their duties. About 12 women employed by Merseyside Police have been identified among those pictured, the Liverpool ECHO reports. READ MORE: Their hearts are Mancunian, but they are run by Rochdale... Inside Middleton's divide The officer believed to be responsible has not been suspended and is still working, albeit on restricted duties, more than a year after the allegations came to light. Merseyside Police confirmed that a misconduct hearing into the behaviour of two officers will be held at a date to be set, and said it could not comment on the specifics of the case while proceedings were ongoing. The force confirmed both officers were on restricted duties while disciplinary procedures take place. The revelations are reported have caused disgust and deep anger among many officers in the force who are concerned at the length of time disciplinary procedures are taking. The WhatsApp messages came to light during…

WhatsApp has a number of status features which helps your contacts keep track of how often you use the chat app and how active you are. The online status indicator, as well as the ticks that appear on messages all give your friends and family signs that show how often you are on WhatsApp. For whatever reason, you may want to limit some of this information – with WhatsApp so far giving varying levels of options over how much information you can share with your contacts or not. Up until now, if you want to tweak who sees your Last Seen information you could either let everyone see this, just your contacts or nobody. But it’s now emerged that WhatsApp is bolstering this feature, and letting WhatsApp users block certain contacts from seeing your Last Seen status. This inbound feature was spotted by the cyber slueths at WhatsApp-centric website WABeta Info. The upcoming feature was seen in the latest beta build of WhatsApp. So far, the new setting is only available for WhatsApp testers on iOS and Android. But if the feature does end up getting pushed out to the stable channel then you’ll be able to access it by heading…

In situations where users do not wish to receive text messages or voice calls from a contact on WhatsApp, they can block them in a few simple steps. If users don't want to receive messages or calls from specific contacts on WhatsApp, they can block them. It could be due to several reasons. For instance, there might be a business account that is spamming the user daily. Or, users might get a text message from an unknown number and are not comfortable taking the conversation forward. Whatever the reason or situation might be, WhatsApp allows users to block other accounts on the platform, both personal and business. Most recently, WhatsApp has announced Communities, a new feature that will allow users to combine multiple groups into one large community. The admins of WhatsApp Communities will have the ability to create new groups or add existing groups to a community. Additionally, admins will have the power to send announcements to all the groups in the Community at once and delete messages sent by other users as well. Along with Communities, WhatsApp will also increase the file transfer size limit to 2GB in the coming days. While those are valuable features, let's talk about blocking a contact on…

This week, WhatsApp began rolling out emoji reactions. And it looks like the company could soon implement another overdue feature. With the latest beta release of its iOS app, WhatsApp has added an option that allows users to limit specific individuals from seeing their “Last Scene” status, according to WABetaInfo. If you’re not familiar with that part of WhatsApp, it’s the feature that indicates when someone last checked the app, and it’s a way to find out if a contact may have potentially seen your message even if they have read receipts turned off. For a while now, WhatsApp has allowed you to limit who sees your status to only your contacts. You can also disable the feature altogether, but you haven’t had the ability to prevent specific individuals from seeing that information. However, WhatsApp iOS beta version 22.9.0.70 adds a new “My Contacts Except…” option under the Last Seen section of the app’s privacy settings. According to WABetaInfo, adding an individual to that list also prevents you from seeing their status. The outlet says WhatsApp is also implementing more granular privacy controls for both profile photos and about sections. With the feature now in beta testing on both Android…

Author of the article: BRASILIA — Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday criticized messaging platform WhatsApp for not launching in Brazil its new feature called Communities until this year’s presidential election is over. The messaging service owned by Meta Platforms said on Thursday that it is testing the new tool to organize groups in larger structures that could be used by workplaces or schools. The feature would bring together groups, which at present are capped at 256 users. Brazilian media reported that the feature would not be available in Brazil before the election is concluded in October. “What WhatsApp is doing all over the world is no problem, but making an exception in Brazil is unacceptable,” Bolsonaro said during a motorcycle rally he led in Sao Paulo. WhatsApp is one of the messaging platforms that Bolsonaro’s supporters rely on heavily to communicate. Meta declined to comment. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Sandra Maler) Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Financial Post Top Stories Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to…

Home News Software (Image credit: Shutterstock) It’s not often that WhatsApp, the popular Meta-owned chat app, shows its hand before rolling out an update, but the company has broken its usual habits by unveiling five upcoming changes ahead of time.For WhatsApp, the star feature is Communities. This is essentially a way of having connected chats within a larger umbrella group — think clubs, housing associations or non-profit organizations. For example, you could have one large group for your child’s school, but then a number of smaller groups within where you communicate with different classes, each with a different selection of parents and teachers. (Image credit: WhatsApp)It’s an organizational change, mainly, but the feature will also include “powerful new tools for admins," including the ability to make announcements across groups and the ultimate decision over which groups are permitted within the overall structure.To augment Communities, WhatsApp is also making group chats better in other ways — regardless of whether they’re isolated chats or part of the new system. Two of these are increases to current caps. At the time of writing, voice calls are limited to eight participants, but this will soon be increased to 32 — which sounds a touch unmanageable, but…

WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging platforms is adding new feature called Communities to organise groups in larger structure that could be used by workplaces and schools.WhatsApp head Will Cathcart told Reuters the feature would bring together groups, which are capped at 256 users, under bigger umbrellas where administrators could send alerts to a community of thousands.With the pandemic changing how workplaces function, WhatsApp is now being used by organisations, schools, local clubs to communicate among members and get things done.What are ‘Communities’ on WhatsApp?The Communities feature will help people in bringing together separate groups under one umbrella with a structure suitable for them. The users can get updates sent to the entire community and organise smaller discussion groups on the issues of importance. There are new tools for community admins, including announcement messages that are sent to everyone and control over which groups are to be included. The Communities feature will help people in bringing together separate groups under one umbrella with a structure suitable for them. Who will benefit?Organisations like offices, schools, government and private enterprises which are now majorly depending on WhatsApp for communications within members through groups. Let's say a school principal can bring all…

WhatsApp has announced its new Communities feature including new admin capabilities and more. The Communities feature has been available in various forms to beta users for some time — now it's available to all. WhatsApp announced the new changes via blog post, saying that the Communities feature is aimed squarely at schools, local clubs, and non-profits as a way to allow them to have an overarching connection of group chats. Here's where Communities comes in. Communities on WhatsApp will enable people to bring together separate groups under one umbrella with a structure that works for them. That way people can receive updates sent to the entire Community and easily organize smaller discussion groups on what matters to them. Communities will also contain powerful new tools for admins, including announcement messages that are sent to everyone and control over which groups can be included. Alongside Communities, WhatsApp is changing how groups work including — finally! — adding message reactions that will allow people to react to a message without having to add their own, creating clutter throughout the entire group. Other features include the ability for administrators to delete messages and more. Reactions – Emoji reactions are coming to WhatsApp so…

Skipping through multiple layers of security, a WhatsApp scam has infiltrated the messenger's servers and targeted 27,000 users in a nasty cyber attack. Email addresses that use Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace have been targeted by the ploy, which was first detected by Amorblox. The online security company noted that users were receiving an email under the title “New Incoming Voicemessage". The email contained a “private voicemail” attachment and used a technique called "brand impersonation", which is when fakers try and impersonate real businesses in an attempt to scam innocent people. How did the WhatsApp Scam work? The WhatsApp scam got unsuspecting users to click on a fake voice message (Image: Getty Images) The email was riddled with misspellings and indicative red flags, but for those who pressed the voicemail message anyway, the hack had already begun. The link took people to a CAPTCHA link that asked people to prove they weren’t a bot, but this was placed as a distraction and if users went through with the instructions they would have malware installed onto their device. According to Amorblox, people who fell for the scheme left their passwords vulnerable, putting them at risk of further cyber attacks. The…

By Aditya KalraNEW DELHI (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp has won regulatory approval to more double the number of users of its payments service in India to 100 million, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.WhatsApp has over the years told National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) that there should be no cap on users of its payments service in India, its biggest market.Instead, the NPCI told the company on Wednesday it can increase the number of users to 100 million from 40 million currently, the sources said.WhatsApp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The NPCI confirmed the development in a statement to Reuters.Though the relaxation will come as a relief, the new cap could still limit WhatsApp’s growth prospects given it has more than 500 million users in India.WhatsApp has told the NPCI several times it wants to operate “without a cap”, but privately the NPCI is of the view that allowing all its users to access the payments service – integrated with the app and allowing contacts to send each other funds – could strain the country’s financial infrastructure, said one of the sources.The NPCI gave WhatsApp approval to launch the…