Reports suggest that some users got banned for “suspicious” group names.
Yesterday, GizmoChina reported some WhatsApp users are getting banned for ‘suspicious’ group names. According to a Reddit thread , a user changed a university group name to something that was indicative of child sexual abuse.
In February, WhatsApp released a whitepaper on how it fights spam and abuse without reading your messages. One of the methods the company uses to fight exploitative child content is to scan content such as unencrypted photos and group information.
“We rely on advanced machine learning technology to evaluate group information to identify and ban members of groups suspected of sharing Child Exploitative Imagery (CEI),” WhatsApp says on its blog.
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