Just times following asserting the shut of its customer-oriented Wickr Me encrypted messaging service, Amazon Net Products and services (AWS), at its once-a-year re:Invent meeting on Monday, explained that it was making the organization variation of the app generally available. Dubbed only AWS Wickr, the service was initial declared in […]
Messaging
The United States Department of Justice is considering new guidelines for how businesses use messaging apps, so that they’re not employed as a back channel to hide corrupt behavior. The DoJ’s interest in messaging apps was first stated in a September 2022 memorandum [PDF] on Corporate Criminal Enforcement Policies penned […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil’s Supreme Court banned the popular messaging service Telegram, in a widening crackdown on what authorities describe as fake news and hate speech in the lead up to presidential elections later this year. On Friday, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered internet providers and digital stores […]
By Shira Ovide, The New York Times Company My fellow Americans, we are weird. The United States is one of the few big countries where SMS, the texting technology with origins in the 1980s, remains a standard way to chat. In many other countries, text messaging happens over a smartphone […]