Tag: Whatsapp

WhatsApp launches ‘STOP. THINK. CALL.’ campaign to stamp out message-based scams

Stuart Mitchell

WhatsApp is launching the STOP. THINK. CALL., in partnership with the National Trading Standards’ Friends Against Scams campaign. The campaign aims to help educate the public on how to protect themselves and their WhatsApp account from message-based scams. Almost three fifths of Brits (59%) say they have received a message-based scam in the last year – or know someone who has. According to recent research, these types of scam messages have been sent both via SMS text message (46%), or WhatsApp (13%), and unfortunately appear to be increasingly common. WhatsApp…

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Amnesty Claim Gossip tax on Whatsapp ‘clear attempt to silence dissent’

Stuart Mitchell

A tax on social media use in Uganda, which came into effect yesterday, is a clear attempt to undermine the right to freedom of expression and must be scrapped, Amnesty International said today. President Yoweri Museveni announcing the tax in March said it was aimed at platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Viber, to curtail “gossip”, a clear infringement on the right to freedom of expression. Joan Nyanyuki, Amnesty International’s Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said: “It is not the place of the…

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