Dubai: If you are an active Instagram user and come across an account impersonating you, what are the steps you can take to protect yourself?
The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority issued an advisory on January 12, informing UAE users on the steps they can take in such a scenario.
Steps to follow
1. Visit the specific account that you wish to report.
2. Click on the icon next to the account name, which has three horizontal dots.
3. Tap on ‘Report’.
4. You would then be asked why you are reporting this post, with two options available. Select ‘It’s inappropriate’.
5. Tap on ‘Report account’ and select ‘It’ pretending to be someone else’.
TRA Oman s CEO visits governorates
By: Times News Service
Muscat: The Chief Executive Officer of Telecommunications Regulatory Authority(TRA), has made field visits to some governorates of the Sultanate to understand requests and complaints of the people.
A statement issued online by the TRA said: His Excellency Eng. Omar bin Hamdan Al-Ismaili, Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, is on a field visit to a number of villages in the North Al-Batinah, Al-Buraimi and Al-Dhahirah governorates, in the presence of telecommunications companies, in order to discuss the telecommunications companies’ plans and understand the requests and complaints of the people.
UAE issues WhatsApp alert for users
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Users have until February 8 to accept the changes to policy
The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) on Thursday issued an advisory for users of instant messaging platform WhatsApp.
The Facebook-owned platform has been sending users an in-app notification about its updated terms of The page that currently appears to WhatsApp users is an update on the terms of the Privacy Policy that regulate the operation of the application and must be approved by those who wish to continue using the application, said a notice posted by the TRA on its social media accounts.
VPN in UAE: These are the top 5 VPNs downloaded by residents
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The UAE topped in the number of VPN users followed by Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
There are around four dozen different virtual private networks (VPNs) downloaded by the UAE residents in 2020 with top five most popular VPN apps commanding two-third of the market share.
The most downloads went to one of the leaders in the market, NordVPN, which received 17.1 per cent of total downloads at 953,980. The second spot went to SuperVPN, less known but apparently a popular service in the UAE, with 930,883 downloads, which constitutes 16.7 per cent of the total, according to the latest data shared by Atlas VPN with