WhatsApp Subject of Privacy Investigation

Rob Fallon 2013-01-31 0 Comments

The popular smartphone instant messaging app WhatsApp has been the subject of a joint Dutch-Canadian probe into breaches of the privacy laws of both countries. Sophos’ Naked Security reports that this is the first time two countries have worked together to investigate privacy breaches. Linked from the article is the Canadian report from the Office […]

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RIM’s Blackberry Service Suffers Another Outage

Rob Fallon 2013-01-12 0 Comments

Blackberry users in the UK and Ireland experienced an outage that lasted through the morning on Friday, in another blow to RIM’s reputation. The Independent reports that the service was back up by lunchtime, but any outage is bad news for RIM’s already shaky reputation. A number of system problems over recent years have weakened […]

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