WhatsApp vs Signal Privacy Features
WhatsApp is a free mobile and messaging app owned by Facebook. Instead of using cellular networks, WhatsApp only needs a Wi-Fi connection to send encrypted video, voice calls and text messages worldwide. The application was launched in 2009 but was actually discontinued when Facebook bought it in 2014. Today, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app with over 2 billion users worldwide.
WhatsApp app Messenger for smartphone is free to download. WhatsApp uses the Internet to send messages, images, audio or video. The service, although similar to text messaging services, because WhatsApp uses the Internet to send messages, the cost of using WhatsApp is much lower than texting.
You can also use WhatsApp on your desktop, just go to the WhatsApp website and download it on Mac or Windows. It is popular with teenagers due to features such as group chatting, voice messages and location sharing.
These days the Signal Messaging App is being discussed loudly in the world. Changes in the privacy policy of WhatsApp are also a big reason behind this. Which is going to be implemented in the whole world from February 8. Actually, users who do not accept the privacy policy of WhatsApp, their WhatsApp account will be automatically closed. At the same time, this privacy policy has also worried the users.
Because WhatsApp has talked about sharing its data with Facebook. In such a situation, people have chosen to choose Signal Messaging App as an option of WhatsApp. Because this app is considered more secure than other apps including WhatsApp. Let’s know all the things that you do not know about Signal Messaging App.
WhatsApp Co-Founder Invests in Signal — Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, invested about $ 50 million in Signal Messaging App in 2017 after leaving WhatsApp. Earlier in 2014, Brian Acton founded Signal Foundation, a non-profit company.
Elon Musk tweeted — Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man Elon Musk tweeted and advised his followers to use Signal App. This tweet by Musk has created a sensation on social media. More than 2.7 lakh people have liked this tweet and more than 32 thousand have been retweeted.
Data is not stored on the server — The Signal app claims that no part of your chatting is stored on its server. Your chatting history remains in your phone and if your phone gets lost or goes bad. So your chatting history will also end.
The best thing about the Signal app- The best thing with the Signal app is that it does not share your data with any other company. This is not mentioned anywhere in the privacy policy of the company.
Does not reveal your identity — According to the information given with the Signal app on Apple’s App Store, the app does not take any information from the users other than the mobile number, and from this mobile number it claims not to reveal your identity.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy says that it will use users’ personal data to grow their business. At the same time, the tagline of Signal App is the biggest option of WhatsApp, ‘Say Hello to Privacy’. In such a situation, it is certain that through this app, users will get a guarantee of privacy, which is the most important for any user.
Through this app, you will not be able to directly add anyone to a group. If you process a person to add to the group, then the first notification will go and then if they want to approve, then only then you will be able to add them to your group. Through this app, you can delete any group chat through the Delete For Everyone feature.
Actually Signal is much safer than WhatsApp because WhatsApp allows you to store 16 types of information from users to use your app. At the same time, Signal only stores the users’ mobile number because through that the user’s Siglan account runs.
Originally published at https://www.learnmafia.in on February 7, 2021.
