Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has raised serious concerns. Since early 2019, Meta has received over 1.1 million reports of users younger than 13 on Instagram. Despite this, only a fraction of these accounts were disabled. Meta is facing serious allegations of knowingly allowing underage users on its Instagram platform, collecting their ...

Facebook has extended its Reels length to 90 seconds, trending Reels templates, plus introduced a ‘Grooves’ feature to align video motion with the song beats. On Friday, the business announced it on Facebook through its “Meta for Creators” account. Producers may now quickly create “Ready-made” Reels from their “Memories” exactly like they do on Instagram, ...

WhatsApp’s latest privacy policy: On Thursday, a petition was filed in an Indian court citing the privacy threatened and user surveillance due to WhatsApp’s recently updated privacy policy conditions. This presents a big challenge to the Facebook owned chatting application.  On January 4, WhatsApp, California based Facebook Inc owned messenger app, said that it has ...

New WhatsApp policy: Cybersecurity activists express data privacy concerns after WhatsApp updates its policy for users WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy, allowing its parent company Facebook to access user’s data and information on the app. Under the new terms of service and privacy policy, user will have to compulsorily share their WhatsApp data with ...

Indian Fintechs: India is taking some serious steps to ensure fintech players don’t overstep their boundaries. In a time when technological giants like Google and Facebook are trying to devour every other smaller player in the market, India is going to cap the percentage of transactions that a single player can keep in their kitty.  ...

The public policy executive was named in media reports about the social media giant’s political bias in favour of the ruling party in India. It was only a few weeks earlier that Facebook’s South Asia public policy director Ankhi Das was at the centre of a political and media storm. A report by the Wall ...

On Saturday, Delhi Assembly panel issued a notice to Facebook India Vice President and Managing Director Ajit Mohan asking him to appear before the panel on September 15 in connection with Delhi riots and the company’s ignorant attitude towards hate messages posted on its forums. The complaints filed against the social media platform alleged its ...

After the Wall Street Journal report on hate speech on social media, there has been growing controversy over the BJP’s nexus with Facebook. On Monday, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asks all NDA MPs in the House Panel to write to the Lok Sabha Speaker against I&T Committee Chairman Dr. Shashi Tharoor on summoning Facebook without ...

Huge speculations began hours after Congress MP Rahul Gandhi spoke on the Wall Street Journal report on hate speech and alleged that Facebook Inc. overlooked the protocols to check the instigating posts linked to the BJP. The party leader and the head of the committee on Information Technology Mr. Shashi Tharoor declared that the House ...

This comes at the heels of a larger ban instituted across the whole country which banned 50 Chinese apps for security reasons. ANI reported that with tensions simmering at the Line of Actual Control, army personnel have been asked to uninstall different kinds of apps, some of which don’t necessarily have a Chinese connection. Army ...