WhatsApp is launching three new ad features in a global roll-out across the messaging app. The Meta-owned platform says the new ads will not be shown in the same place as people’s private chats, nor will the contents of their messages – which are encrypted – be used to decide which ads to display. WhatsApp...
Getty Images WhatsApp has told the BBC it is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy. The messaging app’s boss, Will Cathcart, said the case “could set a dangerous precedent” by “emboldening other nations” to seek to break encryption, which is how tech firms keep...
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images WhatsApp says its new AI feature embedded in the messaging service is “entirely optional” – despite the fact it cannot be removed from the app. The Meta AI logo is an ever-present blue circle with pink and green splashes in the bottom right of your Chats screen. Interacting with...
Hundreds of Westminster insiders were added to – and then swiftly deleted from – a WhatsApp group set up by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick to promote his London marathon run. The mishap was laughed off by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who revealed that she too had briefly been a member of the chat along...