WhatsApp shared its month-to-month compliance report lately. As per the report, the Meta-owned social media app banned a report over 69 lakh dangerous accounts in India within the month of December 2023, in compliance with the brand new IT Guidelines 2021.
The precise determine shared by the corporate is “6,934,000 accounts”. WhatsApp banned these many accounts within the interval between December 1-31.
Out of those, WhatsApp proactively banned 1,658,000 of those accounts, i.e. earlier than any studies from customers. The corporate acquired over 16,366 criticism studies within the month of December in India. These studies embody ban appeals from the next classes – product help, account help, security, different help, and security. The entire data “actioned” had been 13, as per the report.
“Accounts Actioned” denotes studies the place WhatsApp took remedial motion primarily based on the report and taking motion denotes both banning an account or a beforehand banned account being restored because of this.
“This user-safety report comprises particulars of the person complaints acquired and the corresponding motion taken by WhatsApp, in addition to WhatsApp’s personal preventive actions to fight abuse on our platform,” in accordance with the corporate.
In a bid to empower hundreds of thousands of Indian social media customers, the Centre lately launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) which appears into their considerations relating to content material and different points. The panel will look into appeals by customers towards selections of social media platforms.
“We’re an business chief amongst end-to-end encrypted messaging providers in stopping and combating abuse. Along with our security options and controls, we make use of a crew of engineers, information scientists, analysts, researchers, and consultants in legislation enforcement, on-line security, and know-how developments to supervise these efforts,” said WhatsApp within the compliance report.
Whereas the banned accounts for December appear excessive, it’s to be famous that the corporate banned over 71 lakh dangerous accounts in November in India. It acquired 8,841 studies and it actioned 6 of the accounts, as per a earlier compliance report.
In different information about WhatsApp, it’s engaged on a number of options for its customers. A few of these are privateness and security-related just like the Chat Lock characteristic. WhatsApp is reportedly engaged on a brand new characteristic for the net shopper. The characteristic was noticed within the ‘below improvement’ stage and needs to be launched for the steady app quickly.
The online shopper’s Chat Lock characteristic will work the identical means it does on the cellular app. It lets customers lock particular person chats with a passcode or Face ID.
— Written with inputs from IANS
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