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Whatsapp to curb fake news and spam texts without compromising user privacy

While India grapples with a booming digital market and increasing data security concerns, messaging app WhatsApp wants to ensure bare minimum access to user data to prevent misuse. The messaging app, like its parent company Facebook, has been accused of misuse for allowing fake news and spam messages to proliferate unchecked globally. "The traditional way to filter spam messages would be to check the messages at server (for keywords) but since the data is encrypted, we cannot see the messages. That said we have a dedicated spam team to help identify such accounts (that send bulk messages)," said Alan Kao, Software Engineer at WhatsApp .He mentioned methods like identifying accounts that sent bulk messages to numbers outside of their phonebook or suspending accounts that many users have reported as spam. Kao reiterated that once a message is read by a recipient (identified by two blue ticks), the messages are wiped out of WhatsApp servers. As WhatsApp does not store data on cloud ...

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