Digital Discourse Database

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Iranian hackers attack Telegram to find 15 million accounts

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, texting
Summary | Iranian hackers got access to Telegram accounts and got the details of 15 million Iranian users.
Image Description | Telegram logo, photograph of military men running, photograph of two Muslim women taking a selfie, screenshot of a series of tweets
Image Tags | female(s), logo, male(s), selfie, smartphone, Twitter

The rise and rise of international diplomacy by WhatsApp

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, privacy, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp diplomacy is a thing: when leaders gather to talk in the same room, they can exchange emojis and other documents to other people without the whole room knowing. WhatsApp is more secure than other government information systems and has been used at the UN and EU headquarters.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of diplomats looking at their phone, screenshot of a WhatsApp chat, photograph of a man holding a phone and a woman standing next to him (both are looking at the phone)
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text, WhatsApp

Facebook has 60 people working on how to read your mind

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook, texting
Summary | Facebook's long term development plans include reading your mind by means of external devices that measure brainwaves and translate them into text. This would emable users to type five times as fast and without having to take their phones out. This way one would no longer have to pause a face-to-face conversation to write a text.
Image Description | Reuters images of Regina Dugan, head of Facebook’s hardware innovation division.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s)

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