New Delhi: In the midst of pressure to identify the original resource of messaging that violates the law and inflammation, the instant messenger owned by Facebook WhatsApp on Thursday that he has banned more than 20 lakh users in India during May, taking it down for “dangerous behavior” , The company – which has been steadfast in its rejection to share the first source of illegal messages that are often blamed by the government for incidents and other crimes because of fake messages, viruses – say their actions are collected based on information through technology tools and user feedback.
The action in India was significant because almost a quarter of the global prohibition carried out by WhatsApp in a month related to dangerous behavior.
The disclosure was present as part of the mandate under its new rules, although the company has challenged the provisions of tracing in the Delhi High Court.
Earlier this month, the parents of WhatsApp Facebook have reported attracts as many as 3.2 crore posts users in the same period, and this ranges from spam to adult nudity, intimidation and harassment, and content around violent and graphic content.
However, the two reports do not provide data on criticism of government orders, or demand by political parties.
WhatsApp said it would deploy tools and resources to “prevent dangerous behavior” on the platform.
“We are very focused on prevention because we believe it is much better to stop dangerous activities from the beginning than to detect it after the danger occurs.
Detection of abuse operates in the three stages of account lifestyle: during registration; during shipping; and in response to negative feedback, which is We accept in the form of user reports and blocks.
“The company said the” analyst team added this system “to evaluate edge cases and help increase the effectiveness of time.
However, insisting that the conversation of people-to-person on the platform was encrypted, and thus remained private.
WhatsApp said it was “attention to closing user feedback” while also involved with specialists in improved information, promoting Siber’s security, and preserving election integrity.
“We are an industry leader among encrypted encrypted to end in preventing and fighting abuse.
In addition to our safety features and control, we employ engineer teams, data scientists, analysts, researchers, and experts in law enforcement, online safety, and technology development To oversee this effort.
We allow users to block contacts and report troubled content and contact us from within the application.
“Apart from the ban, whatsApp said Indian complaints officers received 345 user complaints, including on problems such as accounts and product support, safety and safety Appeal ban.
It cancels 03 forbid the appeal here.
Giving a report about users ‘complaints, Facebook said received 646 complaints in the same period, which involved 198 related to’ account hacking ‘, 73 on’ false problems ‘,’ others ‘, and 36 related to’ partial nudity / nudity or in the headline of sexual action , “Of all that …
we provide tools for users to solve their problems in 363 cases …
of 297 other reports are needed, we review content, we review content according to our policy.
From them, we take action on 47 pieces of content on In total.
250 remaining reports are reviewed but may not be followed up for the reasons described above, “Facebook said.
Likewise, Instagram said his complaint officer received D 36 complaints in the period, including related account hacking (7), and ‘partial nudity / nudity or in sexual acts’ (25).
“From this entrance report, we provide tools for users to solve their problems in 10 cases.” From the others, we take action at 20 pieces of content.