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  2. List of websites blocked in mainland China - Wikipedia

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    WhatsApp: whatsapp.com whatsapp.com Messaging Multilingual September 2017–present [23] Blocked Twitch: twitch.tv: twitch.tv: Streaming: English: 17 September 2018–present: Blocked [24] Roblox: roblox.com roblox.com Gaming Multilingual December 2021-present Blocked (Separate Chinese version exists) Steam Store: store.steampowered.com store ...

  3. Reception and criticism of WhatsApp security and privacy ...

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    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 ...

  4. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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    WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [14] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [15] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

  5. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  6. Signal Protocol - Wikipedia

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    signal.org /docs. The Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol) is a non- federated cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption for voice and instant messaging conversations. [2] The protocol was developed by Open Whisper Systems in 2013 [2] and was introduced in the open-source TextSecure app, which later ...

  7. Right to Privacy verdict - Wikipedia

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    After Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014, WhatsApp's new data sharing policy was challenged in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had to decide if the right to privacy could be enforced against private entities. [4] A three-judge bench first heard the legal challenge to the AADHAR law.

  8. WhatsApp snooping scandal - Wikipedia

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    t. e. On October 30, 2019, WhatsApp 's parent company Facebook, Inc. confirmed that Pegasus, a sophisticated snooping software developed by Israel's NSO Group, was used to target Indian journalists, activists, lawyers and senior government officials. The journalists and activists are believed to have been targets of surveillance for a two-week ...

  9. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...