Last week, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton had a message for Facebook users following the Cambridge Analytica events. WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19 billion (€15.4 billion). Acton himself left Facebook last year to focus on messaging app Signal. Signal might be the better option if you still want a solid messaging app but one that is open source, free, has secure end-to-end encryption for private conversations that will not be monitored by the app, whose underlying technology is endorsed by Edward Snowden, and is not owned by Facebook. It does all the same things other messaging apps do: group, text, voice, and video with the ability to attach images and documents.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2018 06:45 UTC