A jury has ruled that the company behind the infamous Pegasus spyware must pay Meta more than $167 million in damages for spreading malware via WhatsApp.
Meta shared that it’s working on something called “Private Processing,” which will allow users to take advantage of generative AI capabilities within WhatsApp without eroding its privacy features.
WhatsApp is upping its privacy game with a new feature that blocks the sharing of content from chats and groups. It will also prevent using content from these chats with AI assistants.
The Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has claimed that journalists and civil society members were targeted and “possibly compromised” by spyware. Specifically, the software was said to be distributed by Paragon Solutions.
WABetaInfo reports that the new WhatsApp beta update for iOS brings a feature Android users have already had for a year: managing multiple accounts on one device without annoying workarounds.