Downloads of privacy-focused messaging apps Signal and Telegram got a boost as users looked for alternatives to Facebook-owned WhatsApp over concerns about changes to the service's privacy policy.

Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging platform to many nontechnical users ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal, a ...

Everyone loves a good controversy. After all, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, right? Now it looks like Signal is reaping the benefits from it. The encrypted messaging app Signal just got a lot ...

Still, when cities go dark, WhatsApp, Signal, and previously, Skype, have served as technological life rafts that keep aid ...

Since war plans leaked this week, global downloads for Signal have roughly doubled, app tracking firm Appfigures told Semafor. (TechCrunch first reported on the boost). In the US, daily downloads ...

Messaging app Signal is at the centre of questions about security and the operation of government after a journalist said he had been added to a group chat in which secret and official US plans were ...

LONDON (AP) — A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive ...

LONDON — A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive ...

Signal app seeing wider adoption in Trump's Washington Musk's team among those using the app for work Signal's privacy attracts both officials and criminals March 25 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's team ...