WhatsApp is now letting users add their email addresses to the chat app - but should you be giving this up to Meta so easily? After all, this is the company that lost the data - including email addresses and phone numbers - of more than 500 million users to hackers, triggering a wave of email and SMS phishing attempts. Many online services call on users to submit their email address, and while this can provide security benefits, there is a risk of this backfiring in the event of a data leak, like the one that Facebook suffered in 2021. But additional security is precisely the reason WhatsApp i...
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"Join this group and invite all your friends," is a message that children and young people are increasingly seeing on WhatsApp when joining new groups. These can be hubs for illegal content and can be dangerous, says Kira Liebmann, a family coach in Germany advising parents on how they can protect children from threats online. What are these sprawling WhatsApp groups about, how do they work? Kira Liebmann: In WhatsApp groups, many people can exchange text messages, pictures and videos at the same time. These groups can include up to 1,024 members. They are very popular among schoolchildren who...
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When you use Facebook Messenger these days, a new prompt greets you with this come-on: "Ask Meta AI anything." You may have opened the app to send a text to a pal, but Meta's new artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot is tempting you with encyclopedic knowledge that's just a few keystrokes away. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has planted its home-grown chatbot on its WhatsApp and Instagram services. Now, billions of internet users can open one of these free social media platforms and draw on Meta AI's services as a dictionary, guidebook, counselor or illustrator, among many other tasks...
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Social media giant Meta has been urged to reverse the lowering of the minimum age to use WhatsApp. The change, which reduces the age limit from 16 to 13, came into force in the EU and UK on Thursday. Campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood said the move by Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, was “tone deaf”. "WhatsApp is putting shareholder profits first and children’s safety second," co-founder Daisy Greenwell told UK newspaper The Times. "Reducing their age of use from 16 to 13 years old is completely tone deaf and ignores the increasingly loud alarm bells being rung by scientists...
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