>"After the EU’s Digital Markets Act introduced a requirement for interoperability between messaging apps, security experts have raised concerns that it will decrease the use of end-to-end encryption, putting consumer privacy at risk."

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>Young Afghan women grew up with cellphones, social media and the freedom to express themselves. Now they feel like prisoners."

"WhatsApp has launched a new pilot that lets people in the US send and receive money from within a chat. The feature is powered by Novi, _...Read More_

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of WhatsApp’s parent, Meta, said on his Facebook page: “Not all messages need to stick around forever.”

>"Uber wants to make booking a ride in India as easy as sending a WhatsApp message."

CNN: Thanksgiving travelers set pandemic record on Sunday, TSA says. >"The Transportation Security Administration reported screening 2,451,300 people _...Read More_

"The leader of Taiwan, the island thrust into the center of rising tensions between the United States and China, said the threat from Beijing is growing "every day," as for the first time she confirmed the presence of American troops on _...Read More_

"Over time, it also became the site of a workplace revolt, as the company’s fellows—engineers in training—began to agree that they were being mistreated. The _...Read More_

>"Beijing condemns speech as ‘inciting confrontation, cutting apart history and distorting facts’"

>"Hiding in a basement in Kabul, he feared for his life if exposed by the Taliban. While activists worked to help him flee Afghanistan, he ventured outside only when wearing a mask and sunglasses."

[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/10/asia/taiwan-national-day-tsai-intl-hnk/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/10/asia/taiwan-national-day-tsai-intl-hnk/index.html) >"Taiwan will not bow to pressure and nobody can force it to accept the path China has laid out for the self-governing democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen _...Read More_

>"Social media is a lifeline in many countries, and Facebook must do more to protect its systems from routine failures, says Project Lifeline leader Humza Jilani"

>"WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South."

Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that his instant messaging app added a staggering 70 million users yesterday in what he described as a “record increase in user registration and activity” for the service.