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why is Elon musk pushing the signal it’s because of WhatsApp privacy policy changes?
let’s get some context Whatsapp is super popular
it has around 2 billion users one of its hooks
is that WhatsApp says it cannot view the content of
the messages you’re sending thanks to encryption
however other data can be collected so when
the service announced an updated privacy policy
would go into effect on February 8th people were
concerned the following language got people’s
attention quote as part of the Facebook family of
companies WhatsApp receives information from
and shares information with this family of companies
we may use the information and we receive from them
and they may use the information and we share with
them to help our services and their offerings
so this language sounds like what you write in
WhatsApp would be shared with Facebook and
Facebook is not known exactly for respecting
privacy hence the freakout began to keep in mind
WhatsApp has been sharing data with Facebook
since 2016 WhatsApp has made a number of
statements saying that new policy will not affect
the privacy of messages with family and friends it
relates to messaging businesses through the platform
and, the policy changes will not take effect until
May 15th however between the announcement
of a new policy and what’s app statements Elon
musk tweets out use signal then the tweet was
retweeted by jack Dorsey who happens to be
the CEO of Twitter so guess what people and started
Elon musk signal app
downloading signal in droves and so what is signal it
works like your standard text messaging app
however, its big draw is privacy and on signals website
you see testimonials from Jack Dorsey as and well as
Edward Snowden when I see that Edward Snowden
use a signal that gives me a pretty good idea that
a signal must be pretty secure people can use a
signal to send text video audio and picture
messages all of those are protected by end-to-end
encryption that means that only the sender
and the recipient can read messages in the signal
if messages are intercepted by a neighbor a
mobile carrier or law enforcement and they get to look
at gibberish signal does not collect and or store user
Privacy signal
data other than your phone number on top of that
signal has no ads signal site proudly states that
quote privacy isn’t an optional mode it’s just
the way that signal works signal tweeted and
explained that it was handling quite the surge
musk’s tweet was published on January 7th on
the 11th signal was downloaded almost 1.3 million
times just on that day and according to a tracking firm
a signal spokesperson said that the number of
downloads reported is on the low side on
the 13th of January signal posted a couple of
screenshots from the google play store signal
went from over 10 million installs to over 50
million if for whatever reason you’re not feeling
up to signal, there’s always telegram which is also
seeing a surge of new installs with now over 500
million active users just know a telegram is not
as private as signal telegram grabs your name
phone number contacts IP address and user-id
again signal just grabs your phone number if
you want your messages encrypted you’ll have
to opt-in also group messages are not encrypted
additionally, telegram’s encryption scheme does
not seem entirely open source according to some
researchers that mean it is not fully clear what
happens to your messages when they get to
telegram servers all that being said telegram
seems very confident that others cannot hack
Elon Musk is pushing app Signal
telegram messages in an faq a question asks
what if my hacker friends say they could decipher
telegram messages the answer reads anyone
who claims that telegram messages can be
deciphered is welcome to prove that claim
in our competition and win 300 000 dollars so
there you go that’s why Elon musk was pushing
signal musk is also and not a Facebook champion by
any means he publicly tweeted hashtag delete
Facebook’s lame and then there was this musk
shared a meme that linked facebook to the riots
that took place at the u.s capitol oh and that initial
u-signal tweet by musk seemed to have an impact
on a biotech company called signal advance signal
advance has nothing to do with the signal app so
the app maker tweeted this isn’t our tweets can be
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