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WhatsApp privacy policy: consumer associations file a complaint July 13, 2021 by archyde This change is definitely not happening. The European Bureau of Consumers Unions (Beuc) announced on Monday that it had lodged a complaint against the WhatsApp messaging service. In question, the controversial modification of its confidentiality policy. These new rules are “neither transparent nor understandable for users”, estimate the Beuc and eight of its member organizations, including the UFC-Que Choisir (France), accusing WhatsApp of “multiple violations of the rights of European consumers”. These organizations have lodged a complaint with the European Commission and the European network of consumer protection authorities. ....
Anwar Fazal holding the smallest radio in the world. It is on a keychain and half the size of a matchbox. FEB 13 is celebrated annually as World Radio Day. I grew up in the early 1940s where radios were a supremely addictive global communications tool. My family had our first radio sometime in 1948 when I was seven years old. The three families who shared the home upstairs and business downstairs always had their different radio stations, local and global, for news and music and I learnt about diversity in words and music. Because of my teenage passion for sports, particularly cricket, I was primarily tuned to BBC, listening patiently for their sport commentaries. Interestingly, it drew me to world news and serious in-depth commentaries of a special kind, apart from all kinds of music and especially comedy. Laughter is always good medicine, as we know. ....