(Natural News) A newly released document has highlighted the ongoing controversy over privacy concerns faced by users of messaging apps, with popular apps iMessage and WhatsApp shown to be the “most permissive” for the FBI to access data and content. (Article by Michael Haynes republished from LifeSiteNews.com) The document obtained by Rolling Stone presents an overview of what data can be […]

(Natural News) Facebook’s recent six-hour-long outage revealed just how dependent significant portions of the world are on social media services controlled by a handful of Big Tech companies – and how easily society could collapse at any moment if parts of the internet were to suddenly go offline. On Monday, Oct. 4, Facebook and all of […]

(Natural News) In March 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new “privacy-focused vision,” citing its global messaging service, WhatsApp as a model. He said that he hoped to bring about a future that allows people to be confident that what they say to others stays secure. Zuckerberg’s vision centered on WhatsApp’s signature feature: End-to-end […]

(Natural News) Apple plans to push an intrusive surveillance system to over one billion iPhones it sold over the years. The company is said to roll out this new feature at the launch of iOS 15 around mid-September. The devices of its U.S. user base are designated as the initial targets, with users from other countries […]

(Natural News) Facebook’s legal woes continue as the Federal Trade Commission filed a new antitrust complaint last week in its ongoing fight in federal court against the tech giant. In this case, the social media platform is being accused of buying up competitors illegally and crushing its partner app developers as it tries to “moat […]

(Natural News) Many smartphone apps track people’s data, including their current locations, even when they are not actively using them. Experts say one of the worst offenders is Facebook Messenger, the social media company’s dedicated messaging app. Experts are now encouraging people to do their research and think about what personal data they could be […]

(Natural News) Project Veritas has dropped another round of bombshell footage exposing the anti-human agenda of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Benny Thomas, Facebook’s Global Planning Lead, told an undercover Project Veritas reporter that his employer “needs to be broken up,” as does Google, in order to prevent a global catastrophe. In the following video, hosted […]

(Natural News) Four states have now joined an antitrust lawsuit that was originally filed by Texas against Google in December accusing the internet company of breaking antitrust laws to enhance its advertising business. Texas is now being joined by Florida, Montana, Nevada, Alaska and Puerto Rico, bringing the total number of plaintiffs in this lawsuit […]

(Natural News) Messaging app WhatsApp has lost millions of users to rivals following a poorly explained update to its terms and conditions. New figures shared by the U.K. parliament’s home affairs committee on “online harms” show that disgruntled WhatsApp users have migrated to rival apps with Signal gaining 7.5 million users in the first three […]

(Natural News) Millions of people are abandoning end-to-end encrypted online messaging service WhatsApp ahead of a privacy policy update that will force users to share their data with social media giant Facebook. According to app analytics website App Annie, WhatsApp’s ranking in both the United States and the United Kingdom has fallen significantly following the news. […]