Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Signal.
Google is increasingly cracking down on rogue apps posing as legitimate apps in its Play store. Recently, at the behest of ESET, a number of apps posing as legitimate Signal and Telegram apps were removed. Google recently quietly removed a number of malicious apps from its Play store, following ... Read more
8 months ago
The Online Safety Bill gives the regulator, Ofcom, the power to require tech companies to identify child sex abuse material in private messages. However, WhatsApp's boss has said it would rather be blocked in the UK than compromise on privacy, with Signal, its smaller rival, saying the same. The... Read more
12 months ago
French lawmakers want to stop not just TikTok, but also its American cousins. This week POLITICO reports that "top members of France's National Assembly" have strongly encouraged fellow MPs to "limit" their use of social media apps and messaging services. The urging message was sent in what POLI... Read more
1 year ago
WhatsApp has officially launched Communities, a new feature that facilitates larger, more organized discussion groups. Communities are designed to help companies, clubs, educational institutions and other organizations better communicate and stay organized. The group environments support admin m... Read more
1 year ago
The EU has published a resolution on how to deal with encryption, security and privacy in the future. Contrary to previous fears, the Union does not want to prohibit end-to-end encryption or require a backdoor. In the resolution, the EU indicates that it wants to strike a balance between the pos... Read more
3 years ago
The European Council of Ministers is working on a proposal that would oblige chat applications such as WhatsApp and Signal to develop methods for intelligence services to view messages on the platforms. The proposal follows a recent terrorist attack that took place in Vienna. A sympathizer of th... Read more
3 years ago
While the bitcoin is unable to remain stable, some of the largest internet companies hope to do so with their own virtual coins. This year, Facebook, Telegram and Signal, among others, will launch their own coins. The New York Times writes this in an extensive analysis of the current crypto market. ... Read more
5 years ago
