The company said a bug recently allowed third-party app developers to access photos people may not have shared publicly.
"We have no plans to launch in China. We don't have a search product there", said Pichai.
The latest campaign comprises three 60-second films that convey real scenarios about dangerous rumours that spread via spam among family and school groups, WhatsApp said in a statement.
Many reviews reportedly say that the Hangouts app is showing signs of age, bugs as well as performance issues.
Arora has been with WhatsApp since 2011 -- well before the mobile messaging service's $19 billion acquisition by Facebook.
"I'm very sorry for this. It's not reflective of our views. We took a private photo with a gift just given to us -- we should have been more thoughtful," Vijaya Gadde, Global Head of Legal, Policy, Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, tweeted late Monday.
The government has also directed WhatsApp to take necessary remedial measures to prevent proliferation of fake and, at times, motivated/sensational messages on its platform.
Google confirmed Monday's disruption on a network status page but said only that it believed the cause was "external to Google ." The company had little additional comment.
It stated that over 32.8 per cent of the users were attacked by web-borne threats in the the third quarter (July-September) in India.
The report claimed hackers offered to sell access for 10 cents per account. However, their advert has since been taken offline, it said.
Out of WhatsApp user base of 1.3 billion people, more than 200 million people are in India -- the single largest market for the popular messaging platform.
As the tech companies demand data to flow freely, Johnson said in order to improve current security and intelligent systems against cyber criminals who are well funded, certain sets of data have to move freely among the countries.
Meity asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) to block 827 websites named in the list issued as part of the order, sources said.
Days after President Donald Trump’s surprise victory, Mr. Zuckerberg brushed off assertions that the outcome had been influenced by fictional news stories on Facebook, calling the idea “pretty crazy”.
Facebook has been quick to let users check exactly what was accessed. But beyond learning what information the attackers accessed, there's relatively little that users can do — beyond, that is, watching out for suspicious emails or texts.
Originally Facebook said 50 million accounts could have been affected, but Facebook didn't know if they had been misused.
ICANN has asked all internet service providers to upgrade their software that resolves the website name in to digital code and directs the traffic to right server.
There will be no internet shutdown in India as is being circulated in the media,Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, said.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a circular dated April 6, had said all system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India.
Glint regularly gathers employee feedback on work, culture and leadership, and gives leaders the tools they need to translate those insights into action.
The information was notified by Ben Smith, Google Fellow and vice-president of engineering, in a blog post on Monday, in which he noted that the Indian-American headed company could not confirm which users were impacted by the bug.
The Windows 10 October 2018 update rolled out globally on October 2.
While Apple uses Google as the default search engine in Safari on iOS, the company also uses Bing in various other places such as searching the web via Siri.
Live Scorecard
Top News
Latest News
