WhatsApp News

Utah Insurance Department Warns of Phony Policies Sold on Social Media

The Utah Insurance Department’s Fraud Division is warning consumers about an increase in fake auto insurance policies being marketed to the Hispanic community using WhatsApp. The department has not identified the sellers, but they believe them to be located outside …

FTC, Meta Face April Trial Over Suit to Break Up Company

Meta Platforms Inc. faces an April 14 trial in the Federal Trade Commission’s long-running antitrust lawsuit to break up the company. US District Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the trial will take place in Washington next year. The FTC’s …

SEC’s WhatsApp Probe Expands as Rating Agencies Hit With Fines

Moody’s Corp., S&P Global Inc. and Fitch Ratings Inc. will pay a combined $48 million over allegations that the credit-rating companies failed to keep proper electronic communications — the latest fallout from US regulators’ so-called WhatsApp investigations. The Securities and …

SEC Hits More Wall Street Firms With $81M in Fines Over Record-Keeping

A new group of Wall Street firms has agreed to pay more than $81 million in civil penalties to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges of record-keeping failures, the regulator said on Friday. The settlements with broker-dealers and investment …

Meta’s WhatsApp Fined 5.5M Euro by Lead EU Privacy Regulator

Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros ($5.95 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead EU privacy regulator, for an additional breach of the bloc’s privacy laws. The DPC also told WhatsApp to reassess how …

Meta Could Face Hefty Fine as EU Probe Into Massive Data Leak Draws to Close

Meta Platforms Inc. could face a hefty fine as a probe by a key European Union privacy watchdog into the leak of the personal data of more than half a billion users last year draws to a close. The Irish …

Russia Court Finds Meta Guilty of ‘Extremist Activity’; Ruling Will Not Affect WhatsApp

A Moscow court said on Monday that Meta was guilty of “extremist activity,” but the ruling will not affect its WhatsApp messenger service, focusing on the U.S. firm’s already-banned Facebook and Instagram social networks. Meta did not respond to requests …

U.S. Court Rejects Israeli Firm’s Immunity From Facebook Suit Over Malware

A U.S. appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install malware allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents. In …

Whistleblower Tells Congress Facebook Puts Profits Over Safety, Urges Regulation

Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant, which she plans to liken to tobacco companies that for decades denied that smoking damaged health, according to prepared testimony …

Facebook’s WhatsApp to Appeal Ireland’s €225 Million Data Privacy Fine

Ireland hit Facebook’s WhatsApp with a record 225 million euro ($266 million) fine on Thursday following an inquiry into the messaging app’s transparency around sharing personal data with other Facebook companies. WhatsApp said the fine was “entirely disproportionate” and that …