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Photo: GettyTwo young men were beaten to death in India on Saturday after residents suspected they were child kidnappers, the BBC and Aljazeera report. According to BBC, locals began attacking people who they don't recognize or who don't speak their language after a video spread on WhatsApp warning people of child abductors. Over the last two years, more than ten violent mob attacks have occurred around India as a result of misinformation spread on social media, according to Al Jazeera. The Assam government has reportedly launched "special unit for cyber monitoring " to curb the circulation of such rumors. And on Monday, the Hyderabad City Police posted a warning on Facebook, noting that people are spreading child abduction rumors on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp.
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Photo: GettyTwo young men were beaten to death in India on Saturday after residents suspected they were child kidnappers, the BBC and Aljazeera report. According to BBC, locals began attacking people who they don't recognize or who don't speak their language after a video spread on WhatsApp warning people of child abductors. Over the last two years, more than ten violent mob attacks have occurred around India as a result of misinformation spread on social media, according to Al Jazeera. The Assam government has reportedly launched "special unit for cyber monitoring " to curb the circulation of such rumors. And on Monday, the Hyderabad City Police posted a warning on Facebook, noting that people are spreading child abduction rumors on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp.
WhatsApp Arms Itself for Payments in India
With over 200 million active users, WhatsApp is now set to launch WhatsApp payments in India. UPI enabledTo have a mass approach for its payments feature, WhatsApp had partnered with National Payments Council of India and adhered to the rules and regulations for the rollout of the feature. WhatsApp's payments feature will be UPI enabled and will also "reflect the addition of payment interoperability features". In a statement released to the press, WhatsApp said, "We'll be updating our WhatsApp payments Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to provide simpler language on how the payments feature operates. We look forward to expanding WhatsApp payments soon."24-hour customer serviceThe messaging platform is cautiously venturing into the payments space.WhatsApp Payments: Here's why WhatsApp is yet to start its payment service in India
according to One big area of concern around WhatsApp Payments relates to allowing a Facebook group company into the Indian payments ecosystem. BENGALURU | NEW DELHI: The complete rollout of WhatsApp Payments in India is stuck in a limbo because of a lack of communication between key stakeholders. NPCI has not disclosed by when it is likely to give its approval for the formal launch of WhatsApp's payments service. Also, there is a lack of clarity on whether WhatsApp Payments is fully compliant with RBI's rules.WhatsApp in February rolled out a beta version of its payments service with ICICI Bank for a limited number of users. RBI can only make storing payments data within India mandatory, but with regards to non-payments related data that WhatsApp collects, it has no jurisdiction, said the bankers.Payment On WhatsApp India Has 1 Million Users
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app that counts more than 200 million monthly users, has launched a payments feature in India during the past several months which now has around a million users. The payment service is based on the Unified Payments Interface of the National Payments Corporation of India. In April, WhatsApp also placed an ad for a head of India, which the report noted was an additional sign that WhatsApp wanted to expand in India — including into the payments market. WhatsApp also has a large user base in India, and by launching the payments feature, it can lock them into the app, noted the report. After WhatsApp started testing payments, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of Paytm, turned to Twitter to complain that WhatsApp is trying to monopolize the digital payments market in India, noted the report.
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