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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app (theconversation.com)

submitted 1 week ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

because "they" don't trust the people they "represent" and they want to avoid federal archives

they must know something about WhatsApp that we don't

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's nothing to know; facebook is facebook, and nobody trusts facebook for data security. Whatsapp is not, nor will it ever be, true end to end encryption, when facebook owns the locks and keys.

[–] rippersnapper@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Also WhatsApp logs a bunch of metadata (who you contact, how often, profile pic, etc)