In 2014, when Facebook bought messaging platform WhatsApp for $21.8 billion, many people were worried about the privacy implications. But the companies promised that nothing would change and that ...

Most major platforms have dealt with large-scale data leaks tied to weak or unprotected APIs. You've seen this play out with Facebook, X and even Dell. The pattern is always the same. A feature meant ...

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When you sync WhatsApp with your Google account, your data is automatically backed up to the cloud regularly. You can restore your messages if you accidentally clear ...

‘Largest Data Leak in History’: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Users Your email has been sent It began as a small curiosity and ultimately exposed phone numbers for nearly half the planet. A team ...

How quickly we reply, how active we really are in chats – many people misjudge their own behavior. Researchers at Bielefeld University have, for the first time, used anonymized WhatsApp metadata to ...

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Monday clarified that WhatsApp must take user consent before sharing data for both advertising and non-advertising purposes. A bench led by NCLAT ...

Easily back up your WhatsApp chats with this step-by-step guide to saving messages through your Google account.