Government Version Of Whatsapp

Amid growing outrage over the Pegasus phone-hacking row, Signal - pitched by itself as a more secure version of WhatsApp - took a swipe at the government over new IT laws requiring messaging apps to break encryption and 'trace' chats.

Amid the raging controversy over privacy on WhatsApp, the government is planning a whole new approach - its own version of the messaging app. Sources in the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology (MeITY) have confirmed to NDTV that two apps are presently being developed and tested and are in beta stage. They have been codenamed Samv...

The government's nodal cyber security agency to combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defences online has warned of a "vulenrabilty" on WhatsApp that could be spread by an MP4 file. The advisory comes weeks after a global snooping scandal on the messaging platform came to light.

Amid growing outrage over the Pegasus phone-hacking row, Signal - pitched by itself as a more secure version of WhatsApp - took a swipe at the government over new IT laws requiring messaging apps to break encryption and 'trace' chats.

Amid the raging controversy over privacy on WhatsApp, the government is planning a whole new approach - its own version of the messaging app. Sources in the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology (MeITY) have confirmed to NDTV that two apps are presently being developed and tested and are in beta stage. They have been codenamed Samv...

The government's nodal cyber security agency to combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defences online has warned of a "vulenrabilty" on WhatsApp that could be spread by an MP4 file. The advisory comes weeks after a global snooping scandal on the messaging platform came to light.