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• Morgan Stanley fines some employees $1M for WhatsApp, iMessage use

  After being fined more than $200 million last year for similar violations, Morgan Stanley has begun penalising employees for using personal messaging apps for company business.

• 500M WhatsApp mobile numbers up for sale on the dark web

  A database housing as many as 487 million WhatsApp users’ mobile numbers has been put up for sale on a hacking community forum.

• Banks face a WhatsApp reckoning as regulators clamp down on messaging apps

  Financial institutions are being hit with millions of dollars in fines from regulators concerned about the use of messaging apps.

• WhatsApp Communities enters workplace, unites multiple teams chats in one place

  WhatsApp, the popular messaging app for consumers, has also found its way into workplace communications because of of its ease of use.

• Meta's Workplace touts upcoming WhatsApp integration for frontline workers

  With frontline workers more disconnected than ever from organisations, Workplace aims to bridge that divide with an upcoming WhatsApp integration.

• Facebook targets Microsoft and Slack with improved business tools

  Facebook announces a way to plug business tools into the social network’s office collaboration service, to catch up with competitors such as Slack and Microsoft.

• How one government is building a WhatsApp alternative to combat privacy concerns

  French government building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between officials.