WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion, is used by more than 2 billion people in over 180 countries. The popular app is an online space where people go to chat, shop, and share news. More than 175 million people message a business on WhatsApp daily.
When WhatsApp users started freaking out about privacy on the messaging app last month, and terms of service. The update follows how WhatsApp data could be used and shared when a user chats a business on the app. Users misunderstood this information by thinking WhatsApp could read their messages and listen to their personal phone calls.
Due to this inconvenience, the company withheld the update until May. Unlike WhatsApp, Signal isn’t owned by a company. It’s funded by a nonprofit set up by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp but left the social media giant in 2017.
Siddharth Rao created a public Google doc he shared on Twitter titled “How to start a conversation about the Signal app with your family.” Rao, a security and privacy researcher in Finland, said he’s trying to learn more from WhatsApp users about their experience migrating to Signal and whether they stayed after the move. Many of the people who added to the document still have “one leg” in WhatsApp and the other in Signal, he said.
The strategy he used was to lie and convince people that WhatsApp is shutting down.
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