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Diese drei Anwendungen sind besser als Whatsapp
(These three apps are better than WhatsApp)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 5.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | law, privacy, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | Brazil has just blocked WhatsApp in their country for 72 hours in order to for WhatsApp to share chats with their police in ciminal cases. It is unlikely that something like this will happen in Germany but it is good to know about some alternatives just in case... Especially since WhatsApp is not very trustworthy about user privacy. Threema is a Swiss app that alllows for user anonymity, Slack is a really good app to use with colleagues because files can be saved within group chats, and Telegram deletes inactive chats after a while so that there are no traces.
Image Description | Woman using a smartphone with headphones on the street.
Image Tags | female(s), headphones, smartphone
"Es liegt eine Magie darin"
("There's a lot of magic in it")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy, virtual reality, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | Facebook is planning to create innovations to accommodate their users' obvious desires to watch videos on Facebook to the extent that Facebook can curently compete with YouTube for views. The sharing of videos has shot up on Facebook as of late. Facebook's live streaming feature also helps with that. Future plans include virtual reality options. Many users are worried about privacy issues because Facebook is connecting data from WhatsApp with Facebook data.
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Neuer Messenger: Google konkurriert mit Whatsapp
(New messenger: Google competes with WhatsApp)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 22.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, WhatsApp
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging service called "Allo". It is supposed to compete with WhatsApp with its advantage of incorporating artificial intelligence to suggest appropriate responses to messages. It also includes chatbots that can make restaurant reservations or check the weather forecast.
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Böse mitgespielt
(Foul play)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 21.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, game, law, pornography, sexting, threat
Summary | All children learn that they should beware of dangerous men on playgrounds but few parents include the same warning about digital playgrounds. Multiple cases are known in Germany where children were contacted by paedosexuals online through chat functions in online multi-player games and coaxed into sharing information, nude images, and meeting up resulting in sexual abuse.
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Der schleichende Niedergang der SMS
(The creeping descent of text messages)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | Texting has revolutionized our mobile communication in teh 1990s. Text messages have created a culture of abbreviations that we have kept going until today. The text message is however slowly going extinct. WhatsApp and other similar instant messaging apps are taking over because they do not charge per message. They do not charge at all - the only thing needed is a device with internet connection.
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Die gefährlichen Nebenwirkungen der totalen Vernetzung
(The dangerous side effects of the complete network)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 29.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, politics, social media, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | In this age of massive amounts of data being generated every day, we face a lot of dangers. We are at greater risk of being ideologically radicalized because the social media only show us content that we like and even so, there is too much information being thrown at us that we can even comprehend. There is no protection against online slander and bullying. People are becoming reluctant to take political offices because of it. We should be mindful of our data use in the same way that we try to minimize our energy use. We waste a lot of our concentration on irrelevant WhatsApp messages.
Image Description | An @-sign made our of a lit bomb fuse and a compilation of Facebook sites.
Image Tags | Facebook
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