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Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta's instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.
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A monitoring center installed by Nokia Siemens Networks (now Nokia Networks) intercepts and archives internet communications for Iranian law enforcement officials. [147] Online social networks, especially Facebook, are also monitored. Citizens returning home from living abroad have been questioned and detained due to the contents of their ...
WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [13] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [14] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.
In May 2012 security researchers noticed that new updates of WhatsApp sent messages with encryption, [40] [41] [42] but described the cryptographic method used as "broken." [43] [44] In August of the same year, the WhatsApp support staff stated that messages sent in the "latest version" of the WhatsApp software for iOS and Android (but not BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian) were encrypted ...
Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
Under new proposals, messaging apps will have to either add a backdoor to their programs, or risk a potential ban within the UK. [11] To justify the proposal to ban encryption, David Cameron claims that "In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people, which even in extremis, with a signed warrant from the home ...