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WhatsApp had a grievance officer in India even before new IT rules came into effect: How to register complaint

Many foreign social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are yet to appoint a grievance officer based out of India for users to raise a complaint with them.

WhatsApp now has a grievance officer for India: Here’s how you register complaints

WhatsApp users in India can now email complaints directly to a grievance offer, here’s how.

WhatsApp is treating Indian users differently from Europeans in terms of updated privacy policy: Centre to Delhi HC

The petition, by a lawyer, has contended that the updated privacy policy violates users' right to privacy under the Constitution.

WhatsApp Payment is live for 20 million users in India: Here is how to transfer money

WhatsApp Payment has been launched with support from banking partners including the State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC, ICICI, and Axis Bank.

How to send money via WhatsApp Payments

As of now, Payments has only been rolled out to 20 million users in India, whereas there are over 400 million WhatsApp users in the country.

WhatsApp payments service gets NPCI nod for roll out in India for upto 20 million users

WhatsApp has been running a pilot service for the last two years but was not given a formal go-ahead because of data localisation requirements.

WhatsApp flaw allowed attackers to crash app via group chat message: Check Point Research

The new vulnerability crashed the entire application and WhatsApp needed to be reinstalled to regain usage.

WhatsApp adds shopping catalog feature, helps establish virtual storefronts

The new service lets businesses display a storefront, but transactions won't happen on the platform.

WhatsApp’s forward limiting update slowed down spread of disinformation: Report

New research suggests that under the limit, 80 percent of the messages died down in two days.

WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption feature is not essential, says Tamil Nadu lawyer

Tamil Nadu state lawyers believe WhatsApp must have some semblance of traceability for investigating crimes.