The U.S. House’s chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices, Axios reported. The ban, which centers on the vulnerability of staffers’ data, comes as Congress is also taking steps to…
WhatsApp updated the video calling experience across devices on Thursday by introducing screen sharing with audio support and a new speaker spotlight feature. It’s also increasing the limit for video call participants to up to 32 people, TechCrunch reported. In…
WhatsApp posted on its blog “Chat Lock” Making your most intimate conversations even more private”. The purpose of this new feature appears to give users a more secure way to protect their intimate conversations behind one more layer of security.…
WhatsApp posted “New Security Features: Account Protect, Device Verification, Automatic Security Codes”. From the blog post: At WhatsApp, we believe that your messages should be private and secure as an in-person conversation. Protecting your personal messages with default end-to-end encryption…
WhatsApp tweeted: “Rethinking your message? Now you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.” At a glance, it looked as though some Twitter users were happy about this announcement while…
Ahead of World Emoji Day (Sunday, July 17) Emojipedia reported that WhatsApp is getting more emojii. World Emoji Day is the annual celebration of emoji use across the world. Created and hosted by Emojipedia, the event is in its ninth…
Today, Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook, “We’re adding to WhatsApp the ability to securely switch between phones and transfer your chat history, photos, and voice messages between Android and iPhone while maintaining end-to-end encryption. This is a top requested feature.…