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According to information obtained by Reuters of one memothe Chamber of Deputies of United States pound the WhatsApp of All devices linked to the chamber. The memorandum was sent to the house officials on Monday (23).
Why did the US Chamber ban whatsapp?
- According to the news agency, the Cyber security office place understood that the messenger offers high -risk for users given to lack of transparency regarding data protection;
- In addition, others two factors They weighed for the decision: absence of stored data encryption and potential safety risks involved in its use;
- Memorandum is from the administrative director and recommended that Other messaging apps are usedlike Microsoft Teams, AWS Wickr, Signal and Apple Imessage and Facetime.
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Past security problems
In January, a WhatsApp employee indicated that dozens of users platform, including journalists and civil society peoplewere targets of the Israeli company of Spyware Paragon Solutions.
And other apps have already been prohibited in the past by the House of Representatives, such as the Tiktokin 2022by security problems.
The goal, through a spokesman, said he disagreed with the decision “in the strongest possible terms”And indicated that whatsapp offers higher safety level than other apps approved by the house.
THE Digital Look contacted the Brazilian advice of the goal and expects positioning.
THE WhatsApp It is developing two new features important for iOS users, who have appeared in a recent Beta version of the messenger, available for testers.
The first, according to information from the WabetainfoIt is the assignment of custom group tags, allowing administrators to identify specific functions of members – such as “moderator” or “team leader.”
Tags will appear next to the user’s name
Tags will be displayed next to the user name in the group and will be persistent even after device change. Initially, only administrators can define tags, but WhatsApp studies allowing members to configure their own.
If this permission is deactivated, the tags created by members will be deleted permanently.
AI Abstracts for Unadrised Messages
- The second resource is the summary of artificial intelligence messages, focused on conversations with large volume of messages.
- With the technology “Private Processing”, the system can generate a concise summary of non -read messages, preserving the user’s privacy through anonymous routes and end -to -end encryption.
- The summary button automatically appears in conversations with at least three non -read messages, but can be disabled in the settings.
- THE Wabetainfo It points out that the feature is not available on activated advanced privacy chats.
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Rodrigo Mozelli is a journalist graduated from the Methodist University of São Paulo (Umesp) and is currently writer of the digital look.
