Caitlin Sarian reports on Facebook giving Netflix access to users' private messages through an Inbox API in a $100 million deal, plus a massive WhatsApp outage that knocked out the service for nearly 25,000 users worldwide.
$100 million
Almost 25,000 reports
It's been a big day for cybersecurity news. Facebook sold all of its users private messages to Netflix for $100 million. And apparently WhatsApp went down all around the world. Hi, I'm Caitlin. I'm a cyber security and data protection expert and today I want to help you understand the cybersecurity news. Let's go. So here's what's happening. Facebook extended API agreements, including its so called Inbox API agreement which allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook users private messages inboxes. In exchange, Netflix would provide Facebook Facebook written report every two weeks. It shows daily counts of recommendation sends and receipts clicked by the interface. Hit that subscribe button to stay up to date with all the cybersecurity news. Share this with a friend. On top of that, WhatsApp decides to go down offline. Worldwide, there were almost 25,000 reports of WhatsApp being down from Down Detector. And Down Detector also reported that Instagram and Facebook had issues as well. I'm going to do more research on this. Make sure you follow along to stay up to date with all the cybersecurity news tips and tricks and be sure to share this with a friend.
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