What is your favorite messaging app? Do you think it offers enough security and protects your privacy?Įditor’s note: This article was originally published in March 2017. And these apps should serve you justice in that department. Users now ask for better protection rather than flashy emojis. But privacy and security are the most important ones and they are too often neglected. Wrap upĪs we all know, most apps have similar standard IM traits.
The iOS version is available on App Store.
#WICKR ME SAFE FOR ANDROID#
You can grab WhatsApp for Android from Play Store. It would be great if those people choose Signal over WhatsApp but that is an unrealistic expectation. You trade partial privacy with a small chance to endanger you for an app that is massively used around the world (more than 1 billion users). So, this last input is some kind of lesser evil. Because of the two-way street that is instant messaging, both sender and recipient the same app. Simply put, the other services are not as used as WhatsApp. Well, you may ask what is WhatsApp doing on this list. For that reason, it is better to disable that feature. Besides that, all of the cloud backups will, by default, store your chat history. Simply put, they collect users’ metadata for various reasons. The prying eyes of Facebook employees can still find out who is the sender or recipient. WhatsApp now uses the Open Whisper Systems security protocol (the one used on Signal). Lately, WhatsApp finally implemented end-to-end decryption and stopped storing your data on their servers. And it seems that privacy protection is finally getting some love. WhatsApp is still the most used instant messenger. However, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are not the same. It is known for privacy intrusion scandals that are closely related to corporation data espionage and that NSA thing. We are aware that Facebook is not best known for privacy protection. While this is a healthy number of downloads, it is dwarfed by the big names in the space like the Telegram Android app, which has been downloaded over 500 million times. Well, everybody heard of WhatsApp! It started as a small project, gained massive popularity in no time, and ended up owned by Facebook. The Wickr Me Android app gets a good score of 4.7 out of 5 stars and has been downloaded over 5 million times.
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