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Facebook Hits 2.38 Billion Users and 500 Million Stories

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Facebook Hits 2.38 Billion Users and 500 Million Stories.



  • The social network website Facebook hits 2.38 billion users

  • Facebook also hits 1.56 Billion daily active users

  • There are 500 million users are using Facebook stories daily.


"Daily active users (DAUs) - DAUs were 1.56 billion on average for March 2019, an increase of 8 per cent year-over-year," the statement added.

"In addition, we estimate that more than 2.1 billion people now use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger (our "Family" of services) every day on average, and around 2.7 billion people use at least one of our Family of services each month," Facebook added.

Back in September, the Facebook stories was a 300 million daily user active.

Mark Zuckerberg also focus on privacy, he said,



This privacy-focused platform will be built around several principles:




Private interactions. You should have simple, intimate spaces where you have complete confidence that what you say and do is private.




Encryption. Your private communications should be secure, and end-to-end encryption prevents anyone -- including even us -- from seeing what you share.




Reducing permanence. You shouldn't have to worry about what you share coming back to hurt you later, so we won't keep around messages or stories for longer than necessary.




Safety. You should expect we'll do everything we can to keep you safe on our services, within the bounds of an encrypted service. So we're taking the time to get this right upfront before we ship this platform.




Interoperability. You should be able to use any of our apps to reach your friends, and you should be able to communicate across our networks easily and securely.




And finally, secure data storage. You should expect that we won’t store sensitive data in countries where it might be improperly accessed because of weak rule of law or governments that can forcibly get access to your data.




Over the next few years, we're going to rebuild more of our services around these ideas. There are a lot of open questions and real tradeoffs on important social issues, so we're committed to working openly on this and consulting with experts and governments as we go, he said.






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Indian State Court Ordered To Ban TikTok

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Indian State Court Ordered To Ban TikTok, Saying It "Encourage Pornography".





The Madras High court ordered to Ban Chinese Video App TikTok. 



TikTok is a media app for creating and sharing short videos. It is most famous app in India.

The Tamil Nadu High Court, which has been hearing a public interest litigation against the app, on Wednesday said children who were using TikTok were vulnerable to exposure to sexual predators.

“Inappropriate” content was TikTok’s “dangerous aspect”, the court said in an order seen by Reuters, adding that “there is a possibility of the children contacting strangers directly”.

“Maintaining a safe and positive in-app environment ... is our priority,” he said.

According to Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) statement,
The Hon’ble High Court of Madras has passed three harsh directions which merit to be contested.


The first direction prohibits the download of the application, the second prohibits the television telecast of videos created through it and the third directs a response from the Union Government on it’s position to legislate a statute analogous to the Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). 


The court also remarked that after the heinous Blue Whale Challenge – which turned out to be a hoax – the government should’ve been more proactive in such cases:

According to Bar and Bench, Indian legal news,


Even after that [the Blue Whale Challenge], the officials have not learned that they should be alert with regard to these type of problems. Only when the officials and policymakers are alive to the problems of society, the decision could be taken to prevent this kind of cyber applications.


In response theTikTok said,

At TikTok, we are committed to abiding by local laws and regulations. We fully comply with the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011. We are currently awaiting the official order by the Honourable High Court of Madras and once received, we will review and take appropriate action regarding this matter. Maintaining a safe and positive in-app environment at TikTok is our priority. We have robust measures to protect users against misuse, protect their privacy and digital wellbeing. 


TikTok's not only app for facing Bans. The Popular online Game "Player Unknown Battlegrounds" (PUBG) is also facing the ban in some Indian states.



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