Office of the Communications Authority says first round of networks will be able to register numbers with watchdog and get hashtag to verify sender identities.

Hackers hit five social services and schools, compromising details, including names and mobile phone numbers of users, parents and pupils.

Anti-fraud voice and message alerts to warn call recipients about potential scams to be added to all numbers prefixed with ‘+852’.

After a data centre fire caused an hours-long shutdown of nearly all online services by Kakao Corp, including KakaoTalk that is used by 53 million people worldwide, President Yoon Suk-yeol has hinted at introducing regulations for such online platforms.

Singaporeans need to guard against influence operations regardless of their source to safeguard the country’s sovereignty and independence, PM Lee Hsien Loong says.

China Mobile announced that it would stop providing service for Feixin by the end of September, ending a once-dominant SMS alternative that quickly lost ground to Tencent’s WeChat.

Nearly one-fourth of money victims lost was swindled through email fraud, while phone scammers pocketed HK$280 million.

Sharing screenshots of posts making the accusation that the app is separating Shanghai users will now prompt a pop-up notification from WeChat dismissing the claims.

BlackBerry once had widespread commercial success but now reaches the end of its life and the end of an era as company pulls the plug.

China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are expected to roll out their new 5G messaging service, with electronic payment function, this month.

The fine on Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service is the largest penalty issued to a company by the Irish data protection commission.

The new internet content crackdown targets “illegal news activities”, putting pressure on social media platforms to weed out unregulated content creators.

The government is seeking tighter control of digital media amid a wave of discontent over India’s Covid-19 pandemic response and other policies.

Before it was blocked, Signal stood as the last major foreign messaging app that was still accessible in mainland China without a virtual private network connection.

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi overhauled its defunct messaging app MiTalk and turned it into an invite-only audio chat platform for professionals, vying with other similar apps to fill the void left by Clubhouse’s ban in the country.

The Singapore government set clear boundaries over the use of TraceTogether data, and the app itself does not collect GPS or mobile network information. Signal also offers a lesson in openness, which Hong Kong should take to hear.

WhatsApp has informed its more than 2 billion users that they will need to agree to a new policy allowing it to share data with its parent company, Facebook.

The Chinese tech company owns WeChat, which is facing a possible ban in the US.

Unspecified ‘transactions’ with Chinese owners of the popular video and messaging services to be barred within 45 days.

The incident in Adelaide’s Chinatown is among a growing trend of racist attacks against Asian-Australians.

The pause will take place ‘pending further assessment’ of a new national security law, Facebook says.

Many of Facebook’s products, including Messenger and WhatsApp, have seen a spike in traffic as people stay home in regions hit hardest by the virus, but its ads business is still suffering.

Telegram features like channel broadcasts and optional chat encryption have helped some people stay up to date amid heavy censorship on Tencent’s WeChat

Hong Kongers flock to 2-week-old Telegram channel and homespun website for crowdsourced coronavirus information

Toronto construction worker Wu Jian has lost a defamation lawsuit for using WeChat to spread what a judge called malicious falsehoods about community leader Zhong Xinsheng.

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