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Chat and messaging apps

June 2024

  • Social media applications are seen on an iPhone

    Australia’s eSafety commissioner waters down child abuse detection rules in online safety standards

  • Close-up photograph of Meredith Whittaker's face, taken outdoors with a streetscape in the background

    Observer business profile
    ‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal

May 2024

  • Close up with iPhone on chat GPT

    AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers

    Five systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responses

April 2024

  • Tech illustrations in Poland - 4 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14419342d) In this photo illustration a WhatsApp logo is displayed on a smartphone with cyber security symbol on the background. Tech illustrations in Poland - 4 Apr 2024

    Terror watchdog condemns WhatsApp for lowering UK users’ minimum age to 13

    Jonathan Hall, Britain’s reviewer of terrorism legislation, says more children could be exposed to encrypted extremist content

January 2024

  • A child looks at a smartphone

    Child sexual abuse: Self-generated imagery found in over 90% of removed webpages

    Volume of material children are coerced or groomed into creating prompts renewed attack on end-to-end encryption

November 2023

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    The Guardian documentary
    Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

  • The Guardian documentary
    Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world

June 2023

  • Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak use their phones during a visit to West India Quay, London in June 2020.

    Covid inquiry heads for row with government over Google Spaces redactions

    Lawyer says not providing complete set of messages on platform would be ‘wrong in principle’

April 2023

  • ‘You can’t go wrong with the bath, right?’ … cartoon man taking a selfie

    How to have a healthy sex life
    ‘I took one of me in the bath – can’t go wrong with the bath, right?’: my most memorable sexting disaster

  • A computer user's hands at work on a back-lit keyboard and mouse

    Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine

January 2023

  • Social media apps on a mobile phone

    WhatsApp and other messaging services left out of new Australian misinformation code, regulator says

    Australian Communications and Media Authority wants social media companies to hand over information on how they respond to complaints

January 2022

  • Someone on WhatsApp on their smart phone

    End-to-end encryption protects children, says UK information watchdog

    Information commissioner defends role of privacy protections in face of government-backed campaign

April 2021

  • USB device attached to Cellebrite system used for data extraction from mobile devices.

    Signal founder: I hacked police phone-cracking tool Cellebrite

    Moxie Marlinspike accuses surveillance firm of being ‘linked to persecution’ around the world

January 2021

  • A smartphone showing the logos for WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and Signal

    UK regulator to write to WhatsApp over Facebook data sharing

  • Digital Companies on smartphone - 15 Jan 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (11712363m) In this photo illustration the Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram app icons seen displayed on a smartphone screen one Digital Companies on smartphone - 15 Jan 2021

    Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer?

May 2019

  • WhatsApp app on a smartphone

    The Guardian view on hacking: a dangerous arms trade

  • whatsapp icon next to a silhouette of a phone in a hand

    WhatsApp hack: have I been affected and what should I do?

April 2019

  • Chris Keates, General Secretary of NASUWT

    Messaging apps ‘expose teachers to aggression from parents’

    Union says members are receiving angry late-night messages

February 2019

  • Parental controls on Facebook’s Messenger Kids app

    Facebook 'youth team' to focus on Messenger Kids app for under-13s

    Staff responsible for getting children to use social network previously worked on LOL ‘meme hub’

January 2019

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    WhatsApp is now fighting the scourge of viral disinformation. About time

    John Naughton
    The platform is belatedly trying to curb the kind of rumours that incited violence in India, Brazil and Pakistan
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