Iran-Israel conflict top updates: Meta rejects Tehran’s claims on location tracking
United States-based technology company Meta on Wednesday said it does not “track the precise location” of the users of its messaging platform WhatsApp, reported CBS News.
Earlier in the day, Iran reportedly asked its citizens to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other “location-based applications”, accusing them of being Israel’s “main methods to identify and target individuals”.
This came against the backdrop of the conflict between Israel and Iran entering its sixth day. The countries have launched fresh attacks on each other.
Here is more on this and other top updates:
- Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, said on Tuesday that the “false reports” from Iran will be an excuse for its services to be blocked in the country “at a time when people need them the most”. It stated that all of the messages sent via WhatsApp are “end-to-end encrypted meaning no-one except the sender and recipient has access to those messages, not even WhatsApp”. “We do not provide bulk information to any government,” the tech firm said.
- The statement came after the Islamic Republic News Agency urged citizens to deactivate or delete their WhatsApp accounts because the “Zionist regime is using citizens’ information to harm us”, Al Jazeera reported.
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his nation would never surrender as demanded by United States...
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