Look mum, no smartphone. For the first time WhatsApp to test a feature to allow users to send messages without…
Self destruct feature. Disappearing photo and video message option is being deployed for iOS and Android WhatsApp beta apps
Users are continuing to fall for scams that allow hackers to take over their WhatsApp accounts or trick them into…
Privacy champion? Facebook's WhatsApp division alleges controversial new law gives Indian government mass surveillance capabilities
Three month data collection ban. Facebook has been banned by regulator from processing the personal data from German WhatsApp users
As usage of WhatsApp, Zoom etc soars, the humble telephone landline declines, with 26 percent not even bothering to connect…
Legal challenge seeks to ban ministers from using disappearing messages on apps such as WhatsApp and Signal over transparency fears
WhatsApp's largest market in India is launching an official antitrust investigation over its mandatory privacy policy update
Facebook fixes 'technical issue' that caused Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and other services to go offline globally for about an hour
Bigger screen time. Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service has finally added voice and video calling capabilities to its desktop version
Users who don't agree to WhatsApp's updated terms will be blocked from messaging, and their account could be eventually deleted
What backlash? Facebook's WhatsApp says it will go ahead with its privacy policy update, but hopes that it has better…
Delayed mandatory privacy policy update by Facebook's WhatsApp, to reportedly trigger questions from Indian parliamentary panel
WhatsApp delays deadline for users to agree to new privacy policy by three weeks as notice triggers backlash over Facebook…
Signal reportedly hiring more staff to cope with surge, as it and Telegram benefit from WhatsApp data policy update controversy
Research shows installations of Signal messaging app approaching one million a day, amid concern over WhatsApp data policy update
What is the point of end-to-end encryption? Facebook to access people's WhatsApp data, whether they like it or not, from…
Significant outage for a number of Facebook services including Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram on Thursday for thousands of users
Breakup threat. Social networking giant sued by federal regulator and US states, and could be forced to sell WhatsApp, Instagram
Plans by social media firms to widen the use of end-to-end encryption will put children a risk, Children Commissioner warns
Messaging titan to implement setting to allow for “disappearing messages” option after seven days, in an effort to bolster privacy
Watch out Zoom! WhatsApp is reportedly deliver voice and video calling to WhatsApp Web, its desktop based offering
Chat integration? Facebook is reportedly working to allow WhatsApp users to chat with Facebook Messenger users, and vice versa
Chat-based payments system, offered first in Brazil, allows users to send money or pay merchants without leaving chat service
Serious video conferencing move by Facebook. Desktop users of WhatsApp will soon be able to add up 50 people on…
Blow to video conferencing systems? Latest version of WhatsApp allows for eight-person video calling, and it is encrypted
Facebook unit files new court documents alleging NSO was 'deeply involved' in mobile phone hack of 1,400 WhatsApp users, including…
Social network makes biggest acquisition since acquiring WhatsApp by purchasing 10 percent stake in Indian firm Reliance Industries
False Covid-19 claims that has seen mobile masts and towers attacked, has resulted in WhatsApp imposing a strict limit on…
Surveillance specialist NSO offers Western governments software that uses mobile phone data to monitor and predict the spread of coronavirus