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WhatsApp's Major New Update Will Change How You Communicate With Friends

The feature is called Communities and will help users place several groupchats together under one topic to share updates more effectively - it will be slowly rolled out as a test at first


Daily Mirror 17 APR 2022




A new WhatsApp feature is set to be unveiled and will change how you communicate with friends.



The feature is called Communities and will help users place several groupchats together under one topic to share updates more effectively.

The Meta-owned messaging app will be slowly rolled out as a test at first, company boss Mark Zuckerberg said.

He add that the change was an "important evolution" for WhatsApp.

Users will be able to organise different group chats together under a single main topic such as their children's school or the street they live on.

Community admins will also be able to share messages with everyone and have control over which groups can be included.






The feature is called Communities and will help users place several groupchats together under one topic




Mr Zuckerberg said: "We built WhatsApp Communities to make it much easier to organise all your group chats and find information.

"You'll be able to bring different groups together into one community - for example, in addition to individual groups for different classes, you might have one overall community for parents at a school with a central place for announcements and tools for admins.

"We're going to start rolling this out slowly, but I expect this to be an important evolution for WhatsApp and online communication overall.

"In the same way that social feeds took the basic technology behind the internet and made it so anyone could find people and content online, I think community messaging will take the basic protocols behind one-to-one messaging and extend them so you can communicate more easily with groups of people to get things done together."





A similar Community feature will also be introduced on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram in the future


A similar Community feature will also be introduced on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram in the future, he added.



Alongside the Communities feature, WhatsApp has announced several other updates coming to group chats, including the ability to use emoji reactions in response to specific messages, an increase in file sharing to now support up to 2GB of material and voice calls that can now support up to 32 people.


Last month, we reported on how deleted messages can be recovered by using a little-known trick involving the app's notification history.

The Daily Star reports tech guru ' Ta Tech Tips ' shared a video explaining exactly how you can view deleted messages on your Android device, and it's dangerously easy.

He explains that if you're on an Android device, it's as simple as opening the Settings app on your phone. Then, search for 'notification history' and turn it on.






A new WhatsApp feature is set to be unveiled



This means that when you get a message that is deleted, later on, you'll still be able to view it through your notification history.

You can do this by opening the settings app again, heading to notifications history and tapping 'recently dismissed' any time you want to see what has vanished.

Sadly, the trick doesn't work on iPhone as it doesn't have a notification log feature, but this might change in future.


WhatsApp: TikTok user reveals how to view deleted messages


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Why 'WhatsApp is Ruining Our Lives' -WhatsApp Burnout Is On The Rise

Is WhatsApp ruining your life? -Reasons why whatsapp is ruining your life & relationships ...

AP. 27 APR 2022.






There's a WhatsApp group for everything these days. WhatsApp groups for siblings and families. WhatsApp groups for different gangs of friends, for 30th birthdays, holidays and hen parties.



Even bloody WhatsApp groups to organise quiet Tuesday-evening suppers. David Cameron's Remain team apparently used it in the run-up to the EU referendum. A number of Labour MPs reputedly plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn via a WhatsApp group called the Birthday Group. Top subterfuge, guys.

Such groups tend to come with jaunty icons and silly names that someone thought funny three years ago. One of my groups, called Mykonos 2016, is tastefully illustrated with a photo of a woman passed out and lying beside the loo. Another is Lunch On The 28th, its icon, inexplicably, a naked photo of my friend Jason.


Then there's Dinner At St James's Palace, an invitation from a Household Cavalry chum who chose an image of Prince George from Blackadder as his icon.

And the messages never stop. Ping. Someone asks if anyone's around at the weekend. Ping ping. Various replies come shooting back. Ping. Someone sends a row of 'thumbs up' emojis. Ping. Your sister asks if anyone's thought about Mum's birthday gift. She asks this in a passive-aggressive way. Your brother replies that he hasn't thought about it. Nor have you, so you text a few birthday-cake emojis to lighten the tone.


'Why's she being so uptight?' you text your brother in a separate message. Except you accidentally send it to the very same group. Your sister goes silent. You know she's read it - those ticks have turned blue. We are all neurotic slaves to those ticks.

It's awkward to leave groups too, because the news reaches everyone: 'Soph M-C left,' says a sad little message. It's the WhatsApp equivalent of slamming the door behind you. One friend's husband is apparently 'scarred' by the oversharing about mucal plugs that goes on in their NCT WhatsApp group, but he's too scared to leave because everyone will know.

Mute them, you might say. But the messages just build up anyway, trickling in at all times of day and night. My friend Emma, whose husband's family are spread across the globe, is kept awake at night by his phone constantly flashing on the bedside table like a lighthouse, as message after message comes in from family members abroad.

He hasn't slept for several years but he won't turn it off. Don't be daft. He might miss a message.....


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WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps Oppose UK Surveillance

WhatsApp, Signal and other messaging services have urged the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill (OSB).


BBC News 19 APR 2023







They are concerned that the bill could undermine end-to-end encryption - which means the message can only be read on the sender and the recipient's app and nowhere else.

Ministers want the regulator to be able to ask the platforms to monitor users, to root out child abuse images. The government says it is possible to have both privacy and child safety.

"We support strong encryption," a government official said, "but this cannot come at the cost of public safety.



"Tech companies have a moral duty to ensure they are not blinding themselves and law enforcement to the unprecedented levels of child sexual abuse on their platforms.

"The Online Safety Bill in no way represents a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor will it require services to weaken encryption."



'Mass Surveillance'


End-to-end encryption (E2EE) provides the most robust level of security because nobody other than the sender and intended recipient can read the message information.

Even the operator of the app cannot unscramble messages as they pass across its systems - they can be decrypted only by the people in the chat.

In an open letter published on Tuesday, the operators of encrypted messaging apps warn: "Weakening encryption, undermining privacy and introducing the mass surveillance of people's private communications is not the way forward."


It is signed by:

Element chief executive Matthew Hodgson
Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation and Session director Alex Linton
Signal president Meredith Whittaker
Threema chief executive Martin Blatter
Viber chief executive Ofir Eyal
head of WhatsApp at Meta Will Cathcart
Wire chief technical officer Alan Duric


In its current form, the OSB opens the door to "routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance" of personal messages, the letter says.



The bill risks "emboldening hostile governments who may seek to draft copycat laws".

And while the UK government say technological ways can be found to scan messages without undermining the privacy of E2EE "the truth is that this is not possible".

Mr Hodgson, of UK company Element, called the proposals a "spectacular violation of privacy... equivalent to putting a CCTV camera in everyone's bedroom".

--- 'The Online Safety Bill will create a honeypot of unencrypted material'

Mr Cathcart has told BBC News WhatsApp would rather be blocked in the UK than weaken the privacy of encrypted messaging.

Ms Whittaker has said the same - Signal "would absolutely, 100% walk" should encryption be undermined.

And Swiss-based app Threema has told BBC News weakening its security "in any way, shape, or form" is "completely out of the question".

"Even if we were to add surveillance mechanisms - which we won't - users could spot and remove them with relatively low effort because the Threema apps are open source", spokeswoman Julia Weiss wrote.


'Refusing Service'


Other companies have also told BBC News of their unwillingness to comply.

Email services are exempt - but Europe-based Proton best known for its encrypted email service worries features in its Drive product may bring it within scope of the bill.

The company's Andy Yen has suggested, as a last resort, it could leave the UK if the law comes into force unamended, as it would no longer be able "to operate a service that is premised upon defending user privacy".

That could mean "refusing service to users in the UK, shutting down our legal entity in the UK and re-evaluating future investments in infrastructure", Proton said.

'High Bar'


Liberal Democrat digital-economy spokesman Lord Clement-Jones, who is backing an amendment to the bill, said: "The OSB as it stands could lead to a duty to surveil every message anyone sends.

"We need to know the government's intentions on this."

It was important properly encrypted services were retained, he told BBC News, and he expected Ofcom to issue a code of practice for how it intended to use the law.

The bill would enable Ofcom to make companies scan messages - text, images, videos and files - with "approved technology" in order to identify child sexual abuse material. However, the communications regulator told Politico it would do so only if there was an "urgent need" and "would need a high bar of evidence in order to be able to require that a technology went into an encrypted environment".

It is widely assumed this will mean messages are scanned by software on a phone or other device before they are encrypted - a technique called client-side scanning.

But many services say this would mean re-engineering their products just for the UK


'British Internet'


"Global providers of end-to-end encrypted products and services cannot weaken the security of their products and services to suit individual governments," the letter says.

"There cannot be a 'British internet' or a version of end-to-end encryption that is specific to the UK."

Reacting to news of the letter the Prime Minister's official spokesperson said Tuesday powers to scan encrypted messages would only apply where no other "less intrusive measures" could achieve the "necessary reduction" in child abuse content.

Asked if there were concerns that it would open up encrypted messaging platforms to hacking from foreign states, the spokesman said there would be "requisite safeguards" so that end-to-end encryption was not weakened "by default".

And children's charities say encrypted-messaging companies could do more to prevent their platforms' misuse.


There were record levels of online child sexual abuse, Richard Collard, of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), said, with the victims, mostly girls, targeted at an increasingly young age.




"The front line of this fight to keep our children safe is private messaging - and it would be inconc
eivable for regulators and law enforcement to suddenly go into retreat at the behest of some of the world's biggest companies," he said.

"Experts have demonstrated that it's possible to tackle child abuse material and grooming in end-to-end encrypted environments."

And the argument children's fundamental right to safety online could be achieved only at the expense of adult privacy was tired and false.






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End Government by WhatsApp, Urges Former GCHQ Head

Sir David Omand tells parliamentary inquiry the platform should be restricted to ‘background mood music’


The Guardian 27 DEC 2023





Boris Johnson leaving the Covid inquiry. His government used a group chat called ‘Number 10 Action Group’.



The former head of GCHQ has called for an end to the government handling crises over WhatsApp, saying the platform might suit gossip and informal exchanges but is inappropriate for important decision-making.

Sir David Omand, who ran the UK intelligence service before becoming the permanent secretary of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, criticised the way government was conducted in the pandemic and said future crises should be handled with “proper process”.

Speaking in evidence to a new parliamentary inquiry and as the UK heads into a general election year, Omand said the complexities and nuances of “any decent strategic analysis … cannot be conveyed in a WhatsApp exchange”.

His intervention will put pressure on the government to ensure decisions are properly made and recorded in the future. It will also strengthen demands for Labour, which is ahead in the polls, to set out its plans.

Keir Starmer’s party has promised to overhaul the government ethics system and improve transparency but has not set out how it would rethink Whitehall’s decision-making process and the business of government.

The inquiry into strategic thinking in government was ordered after the pandemic by the liaison committee, which holds the prime minister to account.

Omand, who is also a professor of war studies and a senior adviser to a cyber-investment business, said in his evidence that ministers and officials often engaged in “gossip” and “informal exchanges” as they gathered for cabinet meetings, which helped let off steam when pressure had built up.

“It is understandable that WhatsApp messages might fulfil a comparable function during lockdowns that limited much face-to-face contact,” he said.

“But to judge by the evidence now made public by the Covid-19 inquiry, such exchanges (leaving aside the vile misogyny) had become the foreground means of forcing outcomes not just sharing background mood music.

“That Covid rationale no longer applies, if it ever did. It is essential to have a proper decision-making process if we are to survive a crisis in good order.”

He added: “There is little point in devoting effort to identifying strategic opportunities and strategic threats and risks if, when the time for action comes, there is no proper process for weighing decisions against strategic goals and adjusting course accordingly.

“The complexities and important nuances of any decent strategic analysis … cannot be conveyed in a WhatsApp exchange.”

The use of WhatsApp by ministers has been under intense scrutiny since it emerged that Boris Johnson’s government used group chats to make decisions and discuss issues of critical national importance in the pandemic.

The extent of such communications emerged in a leak to the Telegraph of tens of thousands of messages to and from Matt Han****, the former health secretary, as well as during the Covid inquiry in which messages in a group chat called “Number 10 Action Group” were revealed.

In one message, Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s top aide, described the prime minister as “careering around on WhatsApp as usual creating chaos and undermining everybody”.

Scrutiny of government decision-making has also been hindered by Johnson and Rishi Sunak having lost their WhatsApp messages covering crucial stretches of time.

The government initially resisted having to hand over messages between ministers, senior officials and others to the Covid inquiry, saying it would be “an unwarranted intrusion into other aspects of the work of government”, and into individuals’ “legitimate expectations of privacy and protection of their personal information”.

Johnson’s former head of communications, Guto Harri, told Radio Wales earlier this year that the UK government was “largely run by WhatsApp”.

The Cabinet Office has published guidance allowing the use of WhatsApp and other “non corporate” communications channels as long as “significant government information” is officially recorded. This is information that “materially impacts the direction of a piece of work or that gives evidence of a material change to a situation”. It means that many discussions deemed not to be significant do not have to be reported back.

Omand also criticised the decision during the pandemic to rip up the tried-and-tested structure for responding to civil emergencies in favour of an “ad hoc management … run from a few offices in No 10”.

During the Covid era, Johnson’s government sidelined the usual Cabinet Office Briefing Room A (Cobra) process of emergency crisis management in favour of a new system of committees.

Omand said: “Without prejudice to [the Covid inquiry’s] future findings, I suggest that it was not sensible, whatever the frustrations, to scorn that system, well understood in Whitehall, local government and the devolved administrations, in place of ad hoc management of a major crisis from a few offices in No 10.

“One of the advantages that seems to have been lost thereby is the disciplined process that would have introduced consistency, a measured challenge to conventional wisdom, and the commissioning of strategic thinking on the wider impact of measures being contemplated, including in the longer term after the crisis period had passed.”

In response to Omand’s evidence, a government spokesperson said: “In the modern age, ministers and officials will use a variety of channels of communication for discussions and there are appropriate arrangements and guidance in place for the management of electronic communications.

“The guidance is very clear that significant government information should be captured into government systems and gives clear advice on how that should be done.”

In separate evidence to the liaison subcommittee, another former permanent secretary, Jonathan Slater, called for government strategic thinking to be subject to more public scrutiny in real time.

The former chief of the Department for Education said: “If parliament wants civil servants to produce long-term, evidence-informed, cross departmental strategic work, the thing that would make the biggest difference is to subject this work to the cold light of day.”

The Institute for Government also called for more transparency around the government’s strategic work, so mistakes could be avoided. The thinktank said its research found a “stark contrast in the transparency of economic evidence used to inform ministers’ strategic thinking during the Covid-19 pandemic, compared with the transparency of scientific evidence”.




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