Clegg noted that the company is very responsive to law enforcement requests in India or elsewhere for cooperation and that it disables a huge number of accounts and groups on Facebook and Instagram for nefarious behaviour
However, WhatsApp is a private, intimate messaging system that is quite different from the public or semi-public experience of Instagram and Facebook as it is end-to-end encrypted, he said What we say to policymakers in India and elsewhere is because we can t see the content that doesn t mean that we cannot use signals that we do pick up, what is called metadata. We can use metadata to pick up signals so that we can go after people on an encrypted messaging system, Clegg said
Fuel for India 2020: India is a very special, important country with remarkable entrepreneurship culture, says Mark Zuckerberg
Following the NPCI approval, WhatsApp will compete with players like Paytm, Google Pay, Walmart-owned PhonePe and Amazon Pay in the country.
Jan 08, 2021 18:35:48 IST
At the Day 1 of Fuel for India 2020 event, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said India is a very special and important country with a remarkable entrepreneurship culture, as he sought to push deeper the just-launched payments services that allow users to make payments over WhatsApp. Last month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp received approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for rolling out its payments services in India.
We remain committed to being an open, neutral and non-partisan platform in India: Facebook India VP Ajit Mohan
Regarding its handling of hate speech, Facebook India Head Ajit Mohan said: we are not complacent on the issue .
Jan 08, 2021 18:36:19 IST
Facebook, which has over 400 million people using its family of apps in India, on Tuesday said it continues to remain committed to being an open, neutral and non-partisan platform. Facebook has around 2.5 billion global daily users of its platforms – Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The platform has lately drawn flak in the past for its handling of hate speech on the platform in India, which is among its biggest markets.
Facebook Fuel for India 2020: Making unique investments and bets , trying new things in India, says CRO David Fischer
Facebook Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer said the company has made investments and undertaken some unique bets that it hasn’t done in any other part of the world.
Jan 08, 2021 18:37:15 IST
At the first edition of the Fuel for India 2020 event, Facebook declared its commitment to invest in India for the long term. Facebook says it will continue to build tools for businesses to help them build and grow their online presence. Facebook Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer said the company has made investments and undertaken some unique bets that it hasn’t done in any other part of the world.
Apple iPhone users are reporting a bug that is preventing notifications from iMessages and other apps like
WhatsApp. According to a report in
The Verge, messages are coming through, but there are no pop-up notifications or a red badge to indicate that there is a new message to be read. The report added that while
MacRumors had already spoken about the problem on the new iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max earlier, it seems that the bug is also affecting people with older devices, hinting towards it being an iOS 14 issue.
A number of users have stated that the issue started cropping up after they updated to iOS 14. Image: tech2/Nandini Yadav