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Meta explains how WhatsApp’s encrypted chats will work with third-party services

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The DMA requires that Meta “must be ready to enable interoperability with other services within three months of receiving a request,” but according to the blog post, actually turning it on for public use could take longer than that. The requirements also only mandate support for one-on-one chats and sharing files like images, videos, or … Read more

WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

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Meanwhile, Julia Weis, a spokesperson for the Swiss messaging app Threema, says that while WhatsApp did approach it to discuss its interoperability plans, the proposed system didn’t meet Threema’s security and privacy standards. “WhatsApp specifies all the protocols, and we’d have no way of knowing what actually happens with the user data that gets transferred … Read more

Saoirse Ronan chats about her ‘Weird’ Barbie cameo: ‘Would have been nice’

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Saoirse Ronan talks about her almost played ‘Barbie’ role, which she had to be skipped Saoirse Ronan chats about her ‘Weird’ Barbie cameo: ‘That would have been nice’  The Irish actress, Saoirse Ronan reveals during a chat with Variety that she was offered a cameo role in Barbie. The cameo news was first revealed by her … Read more

Justin Bieber Snowboards in Aspen, Chats Up Fellow Chairlift Passenger

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Justin Bieber’s been out of the spotlight for the majority of the year — focusing on his own health — and it looks like he’s capping off 2023 going downhill … literally, that is. The singer was spotted in Aspen Saturday, where he was snowboarding … a bit of a tradition for him this time … Read more

How to save Opera Aria chats for later viewing with Pinboards

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Aria is always accessible on the built-in sidebar to the left. Maria Diaz/ZDNET Opera’s Aria simplifies the use of artifical intelligence (AI) within the browser. Because of this simplification, you can use Aria as your go-to research tool, and avoid the likes of Google for searching. I’ve been using Aria as a research tool when … Read more

End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years

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Since 2016, the social behemoth now known as Meta has been working to deploy end-to-end encryption in its communication apps. CEO Mark Zuckerberg even promised in 2019 that the data privacy protection would roll out by default across all of the company’s chat apps. In practice, though, it was a wildly ambitious goal fraught with … Read more

Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats

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Judge James Donato is overseeing Epic v. Google, a case that could determine the future of the Android app store — but testimony in this case may have more repercussions for Google too. On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company’s conduct “a frontal assault on … Read more

Make your WhatsApp chats even more private with a secret code. Here’s how

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WhatsApp Some conversations are meant to stay between you and the sender, and WhatsApp just added a feature to help your private chats stay private. Typically, access to your phone means access to all your conversations, but with Secret Code, it doesn’t have to be that way.  Also: 3 new WhatsApp features businesses need to … Read more

Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues

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Nothing has pulled the Nothing Chats beta from the Google Play store, saying it is “delaying the launch until further notice” while it fixes “several bugs.” The app promised to let Nothing Phone 2 users text with iMessage, but it required allowing Sunbird, who provides the platform, log into users’ iCloud accounts on its own … Read more