Earlier this week, Meta announced that WhatsApp will start to show ads to its users. We wanted to outline why online ads and data privacy are fundamentally incompatible, but as it turns out, WhatsApp beat us to it – by exactly 13 years.
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Earlier this week, Meta announced that WhatsApp will start to show ads to its users. We wanted to outline why online ads and data privacy are fundamentally incompatible, but as it turns out, WhatsApp beat us to it – by exactly 13 years.
If you’ve seen “Mission: Impossible,” you probably remember the iconic vault scene in which Tom Cruise is hanging upside down from the ceiling trying to access secret data. The stunt is nerve-wracking, but he had no other way to access the data: the computer could not simply have been hacked because it was not connected to a network – it was “air-gapped.”
There are always new attempts by governments to systematically monitor Internet users for no reason. However, mass surveillance is not only unsuitable for fighting crime, it is also completely incompatible with democratic principles and poses a considerable threat to data security.
Have you ever wondered why you have to provide personal information when shopping online? All too often, information such as the phone number and date of birth is provided without hesitation. But does the online shop really need all this information just to deliver baby diapers, for example?
Good news for Android users who like to chat from the computer: the beta version of Threema’s new desktop app (which was already available to iOS users) can now also be linked to Android devices.
The recent news story about a group chat where military information was leaked to a journalist due to human error shows that strong encryption isn’t sufficient for a corporate – let alone governmental – messaging service.
Threema Work’s management cockpit has recently received an update: app activation links can now be sent to users directly via email from the management cockpit. This makes it easier for administrators to distribute the Threema Work app to their employees.
What a nod or a shake of the head conveys in a face-to-face conversation can be replicated in Threema with the agree/disagree feature. Sometimes, however, a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” isn’t enough to express how we feel about a message. That’s where the new emoji reactions come in.
Nearly a year has passed since the so-called “gatekeepers” had to prove their compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Yet, some of them are still bypassing the law.
