Whatsapp is about to start deleting old content from accounts: INTERNET PHOTO

By  November 12, 2018 Whatsapp will start deleting old messages, photos and videos from numerous accounts.

This is as a result of the new app update that changes the way backed-up WhatsApp content works.

WhatsApp has over the time used  Google Drive to backup all the whatsapp content.

“Due to a new agreement between WhatsApp and Google, WhatsApp backups will no longer count against Google Drive storage quota,” Google explained in an email to users.

 “However, any WhatsApp backups that have not been updated in more than a year will automatically be removed from storage.”

“To avoid the loss of any backups, we recommend that people manually back up WhatsApp before November 12, 2018.”

How to prevent whatsapp data loss especially after loosing a phone.

First, make sure you have a Google account and have Google Drive installed on your phone.

Also, switch onto Wi-Fi, so you don’t use up valuable data saving all of your messages and photos to the cloud.

Then open your WhatsApp app and go into Menu.

From there, go to Settings, then Chats, then Chat Back Up.

If you select Back Up then everything on your phone should automatically be backed up to Google Drive.

You can set WhatsApp to make regular back-ups, which we recommend.

That way, your messages will be safe – and can be restored if you ever lose your phone, or change to a new model.

(source: The Sun)

 

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Rebecca Kadaga, has urged government to rush review of mobile money and social media tax

Kadaga also stated that, “alternatively, a private member may introduce an amendment bill for this purpose”.  She however, noted that private members’ bills face challenges of certificates of financial implication, instead, she advised, the Prime Minister and Cabinet could move the amendments.
“We don’t have capacity to intervene in any amendment for now, apart from waiting,” said the Speaker.
Hon. Paul Mwiru (FDC, Jinja East Municipality) raised concern on the one per cent charge on mobile money deposits that was executed by telecom companies following the implementation of the new law, of which deduction had not been accounted for in the amended law.
“URA later clarified that they were not supposed to make that deduction, but the telecom companies had already collected this money from the public,” Hon. Mwiru said.
Kadaga asked MPs to wait for the bill before they can debate the matter, saying all matters raised in relation to it would be discussed in context of the bill upon being brought to Parliament.
The Excise Duty (Amendment) Act 2018 that took effect on July 1 2018, imposed a one percent tax on mobile money transactions, as well as a daily shs200 payment to access Over The Top (OTT) platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram among others.

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In a follow-up a call to arrest creators of a ‘hateful message’ circulated on twitter, His Excellency the President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni gave a statement.

Below is the full statement:

To: Irresponsible People Spreading Falsehoods Using WhatsApp

My dear country men and country women,
About two or so weeks ago, I made a voice recorded message that I caused to be transmitted to the listeners over the social media network known as WhatsApp that some irresponsible people have, apparently, been using to spread falsehoods. That time, the message was in Runyankore-Rukiga (part of the Runyakitara or what I proposed to call Kinyanja ─ North, as opposed to the Kinyanja of Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique), because the irresponsible people had used that dialect to propagate their falsehoods. I call these dialects Kinyaja ─ North because they are mutually intelligible dialects in the Great Lakes area. Those that are mutually intelligible are used by a population I estimate to be about 60 million people if not more. On that occasion, I used the words: Abasiru, Abashema and Abazigu (stupid, uninformed and enemies) to describe the authors of that sectarian and criminal altercation. Although I had strong suspicion that the authors, were criminal opportunitists who were using sectarianism to try and profit politically, I reacted as if the actors were uninformed villagers that needed education about the powerful, ancient interlacustrine (the people of the Lakes ─ Amayaanja:─ Nalubaale, Mwitanzigye, Masyooro, Kioga, Rutshuru-Butuumbi) peoples who had advanced agriculture (crops and livestock), fishing, industry (metal work, ceramics, leather-working, wood-work, textiles, etc), had symbiotic societies but were badly governed by the, sometimes, parasitic and tyrannical chiefs who were responsible for our colonization by failing to unite us so as to face the colonial forces.

About a week ago, the intelligence service brought me a forged letter that I was supposed to have written to the late Gaddaffi on the 25th of January, 2010. In that forged letter, I was supposed to be informing Gaddaffi about my political intentions and plans in Uganda, denigrating some of my comrades in the struggle and showing a sectarian attitude towards one of our Ugandan communities, the Bakiga ─ i.e. the same Bakiga of the other sectarian recording. Fortunately, this time, the intelligence services and the vigilant NRM people were able to discover who the authors might be and who the propagators were. Indeed, the Police already have some suspects. I would like to inform the listeners and those who follow the goings on, on the social media that that letter is a forgery.

It is a forgery because I never wrote such a letter. In fact, the whole context could not have existed. At that time, my relationship with the late Gaddaffi was very sour because I had opposed his plans of an All-Africa Government, preferring to work for the East African Federation as far as political integration was concerned and only for economic integration as far as the whole of Africa is concerned. Besides, the whole talk of German doctors and my health is a fiction. Fortunately, in the whole 70 years of my life, God has given me excellent health save for occasional malaria attacks, coughs or mild allergic reactions in the nose. Even today, there are hardly any physical exertions that I cannot undertake except squatting which I find abit uncomfortable these days.

We, the freedom fighters, who mobilized all the Ugandan communities that we came across, to create the powerful NRA and, later NRM, cannot, even in the state of somnambulism, disapprove of any of our communities because they all helped us to build that strength and we also helped them to get out of the bad times of effuga bi (bad governance). In December 1978/January 1979, I recruited 200, mainly Bakiga boys, while based at Nyamiyaga Primary School in Tanzania for the anti-Amin struggle. When we crossed into Uganda, on the 11th of February 1979, I recruited alot of Banyankore boys and girls until the fall of Amin on the 11th of April, 1979. In order to train the 200 at Nyamiyaga, I utilized the skills of the boys from Kaberamaido whom we had trained in Mozambique.
Some of those Banyankore and Bakiga boys of 1978/79, who qualified, went for leadership training at Jinja and Monduli in Tanzania. Many of them are the ones that helped me to start and prosecute the resistance in the Luwero Triangle, starting on the 6th of February, 1981 (Tarehe Sita). They are the ones that helped me to train a large number of Baganda boys and girls in the Luwero Triangle (i.e. to prosecute the war). Later on, when we had the opportunity, we recruited fighters from the whole country on the quota-basis. That is how we built the powerful UPDF. We do not look at people’s tribes, religion or sex when we are determining whether they are good or bad. We look at their capabilities. We look at their ideology. We look at their loyalty. Sometimes, we look at their discipline – but the other three take precedence.
The three, to repeat, are: capability, ideology and loyalty. Tribe, religion or sex do not feature in our Minzani (yard- stick, evaluation) of determining who is useful and who is not.
When you hear somebody, claiming to be a leader, talking about tribes, religion, sex (Gender) as yardsticks of determining people’s usefulness, you should know that he/she is a failure and a danger to Africa. He/she is a parasite. He/she is an opportunist.
I described the first group as “Abasiru”, “Abashema” and “Abazigu” (stupid, uninformed and enemies). I now describe this group as Abatemu, Abanyaanda and Abazigu (criminals, opportunitists and enemies). Although, I will not have time to answer much of the nonsense on the social media, when it comes to trying to divide the Ugandans and the Africans in general, I will confront those enemies both verbally and, if necessary, physically. It says, in the Book of Matthew 7:16 that “You will know them by their fruits”. You will know the orientation of all those actors by what they say and do.
Besides, it is only people who have never been involved in armed combat that have the luxury of talking about tribes, religions and sex of people in a derogatory way. In combat, your own very life depends on the actions of your neighbour regardless of his tribe or religion or sex. How can you afford to be sectarian? In Mbale, on the 22nd of January, 1973, I was saved by a Mugisu boy who gave me information that enabled me to take another route. Treat with contempt those who talk about tribes, religion and gender as a way of judging who is good and who is bad.
If the letter is forgery, how did what appears to be my signature get to the document? Certainly, not through me. I have been told by Police that there are techniques of forging signatures or transferring signatures from one document to another one. The Police will get to the bottom of it.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Gen (rtd)
PRESIDENTIAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

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In response to the audio, Museveni released a nearly 15 minute video calling for the arrest of those who created the message. Directly addressing the perpetrators behind the audio, he calls them fools and enemies looking to divide the nation. The President’s video has caused its own mixed reaction. The language Museveni speaks in the video is Runyankole, spoken in south-western Uganda. This left many wondering why an anti-tribalism message would be delivered in a language specific to his particular tribe. Some also balked at President Museveni’s suggestion that anyone who shared the Whatsapp message was complicit in ethnic hate.

However, many Ugandans support a clamp down on ethnic hate. Popular TV panellist Collin Asiimwe said tribal division in Uganda is still strong, and cannot be allowed to spiral. “Because of what happened in the region, if you see what happened in South Sudan, because that was one ethnicity rising up against one another,” he said. “There was Kenya, there was Burundi, and then Rwanda, and so it is so sensitive. Not even just the civilian population like you and me, even the security services and the government need to wake up. The last time it tried to happen was with Kony and northern Uganda … So there is so much to worry about.”

Ugandan law bans the promotion of sectarian hate. Although there has never been a conviction for this crime, because of vague wording the law remains contentious. Some suggest it has been used primarily against journalists and opposition candidates.

A lawyer who has worked on online media laws, Peter Magelah, said the law on sectarian hate is applicable in this case, but he said applying the law to social media could be a problem.

“What I find as a challenge is really not what the law said, the challenge is how to enforce what the law said. How to identify the originator is a very difficult thing. Once you identify the originator, how to choose who to sue, because publication would mean anyone who shared, anyone who posted on his or her Facebook, anyone who possibly ‘liked’”, said Magelah. “It becomes so many people who got into that. The problem we have had in this country is many times there is some sort of selective justice, selective criminal justice. So it is likely if it is a political opponent doing this the law will catch up with him.”

Although the Whatsapp audio in question was clearly aimed at demeaning the Bahima, mitigating hate speech and freedom of expression in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election could prove to be a delicate balance between protecting the nation’s unity and clamping down on social media.

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