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Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has started posting Status messages to users about its “commitment to your privacy.” The in-app messages were appearing for users in the US and UK on Saturday, and some users reported the Status messages — WhatsApp’s version of Snapchat Stories or Twitter Fleets—have been appearing in India for a while now.

Washington [US], January 31 (ANI): American messaging application WhatsApp has now started posting status messages about its "commitment to your privacy," due to misperceptions about the upcoming changes to its privacy policy.

WhatsApp is using Status messages—its version of Stories— to try to reassure users about privacy The Facebook-owned messaging app is still battling misperceptions about upcoming changes to its privacy policy Share this story Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has started posting Status messages to users about its “commitment to your privacy.” The in-app messages were appearing for members of The Verge staff in the US and UK on Saturday, and so...

We love our gadgets. nobody is particularly eager to stand up for a cable stovepipe, but hands off my amazon account. dont interrupt my ability to google anything. but no matter how much we enjoy them, these big four are in danger of thwarting the rest of the countrys economy. i want to know what you think. go to my website, answer todays survey question. given the market dominance of amazon, apple, facebook and google is it time to bust up big tech? and now silicon valley soul sucking machine...

Now by dollar volume is greater than the advertising market of any country with the exception of u.s. and will probably blow by it in two years. facebook has four of the top five apps in the world and squarely on snap and putting it out of business. you can go on and on. amazon has 70% share of voice probably the technology of the future and responsible for a quarter of all retail growth and a half of all online sales yet we dont seem to be worried about the concentration of these companies. >> ...

Innovation is, but yet we dont talk about the reality there are half as many businesses being formed today as there were 40 years ago. there were half as many public stocks as there were 20 years ago. small chains cant -- chains cant get out of the crib. if you look at the rise of the big tech and the decline of the wages of the middle class, you would have a difficult time saying theres not a correlation. the amount of power these companies can achieve, low cost of capital, the scale, their abi...

Or this merger needs to be restrained and the companies with five or ten times the distribution of content dont need to be broken up seems irrational. >> final quick thought. the most powerful person in the world according to you its not putin, its not trump. who is it? and why? >> oh, hands down its mark zuckerberg who has assembled a community more vast than christianity and 2.2 billion people and has license to take that mood up or down. hes not elected. cannot be removed from office and last...

Adopts the features into one of its app and it goes and buys it. the markets are failing. >> professor, i pulled a graphic from your work in esquire. relative to facebook and google which says, the facebook and google are together worth $1.3 trillion. you can merge the worlds top five advertising agencies with five major media companies and still need to add five major communications companies to get only 90% of what google and facebook are worth together. you have similar data relative to amazo...

Recall in the debate with marco rubio. hes opened the door for this discuss but nonetheless, cbs has to vet this story carefully to be careful and as you point out the lawyer he now has is the lawyer who made that privacy suit against gawker. so they have to be careful about invading privacy and making sure that what she says about sex has some sort of newsworthy angle. >> perhaps this will finally be the case where we test that size of hand hypothesis. george freeman thank you for being here. i...

Im out of a job. >> but amazon is just one of the booming big tech companies along with apple, facebook and google. youll meet the man who advocates breaking them up like ma bell with the railroads. and president trumps lawyers taking new steps to keep adult film actress stormy daniels silent saying she owes $20 million for violating the nda. can they prevent "60 minutes" from airing her interview? but first, jeff sessions fired andrew mccabe late friday, less than two days shy of his retireme...