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Careful what you say: these WhatsApp messages can land you in jail President Ramaphosa has signed the Cybercrimes Act into law, criminalising the sending of certain messages on social media. The act centres around three different types of harmful messages. These are messages which incite damage to property or violence, threaten individuals with damage to property or violence and, lastly, unlawfully contain an intimate image. Penalties for infringing these laws include imprisonment (up to three years) and/or a fine. MyBroadband reports that the act also includes definitions for other criminal ...

Facebook has withdrawn commitment to meet with the Communications and Digital Technologies Committee, said former DA MP Phumzile Van Damme.

Changes coming to WhatsApp as terms of service, privacy policy draws nearer Instant messaging service WhatsApp has announced that a number of changes for the platform are in the works. Covid-19 has accelerated the movement towards a cashless, contactless society for hygiene and convenience reasons. To this effect, the messaging service will soon introduce WhatsApp payments, which is already live in India and Brazil. The company plans to introduce it to other regions in the coming months, with WABetaInfo (a WhatsApp news specialist) reporting that the UK, Mexico and Spain are next in line. Oth...

WhatsApp Privacy Policy: Government questions CEO, asks to withdraw recent changes to privacy policy In a strongly worded letter to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, the ministry also raised concerns about the information security of the users as the new policy of WhatsApp proposes to share the metadata of users' chat with business accounts with other Facebook companies. Source: Reuters The Indian government has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the recent changes in the privacy policy of the messaging app, saying 'any unilateral changes to the WhatsApp Terms of Service and Privacy would not be fair and a...