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Handle-based messaging could curb spam and unlock new revenue through dynamic pricing, even as regulators tighten SIM-linked account verification

Move reflects growing tension between privacy protections and online safety enforcement

Messaging app withdraws appeal and agrees to implement consent safeguards as Supreme Court hears cross-appeals in privacy dispute.

The Supreme Court takes up challenges to an antitrust penalty as judges question consent, market power and the commercial use of user data