Growing concern about WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy appears to be pushing more and more customers to options like Signal. The quantity of new customers who are joining Signal each day has crossed 1 million bringing it closer to WhatsApp. As on Sunday, 8,10,000 customers have installed Signal that is almost 18-fold compared to a quantity of downloads produced 4 days back on January 06, when the Facebook-owned messaging platform updated its privacy norms.
According to WhatsApp new privacy norms, the customers have to give access to information sharing, like place, telephone quantity with Facebook and its other units like Messenger and Instagram. Users who do not comply with the new norms newest by February 8, will shed access to the messaging app.
Facebook’s move has come beneath the scanner with privacy advocates citing the social media giant’s track record in handling user information. Many like Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, well-liked whistleblower Edward Snowden have advised customers to migrate to related messaging platforms like Signal and Telegram.
Signal meanwhile, creating most of the chance has turn into the quantity 1 app on App shop in India and on 3rd position on Google Play as on January 11. Signal also tweeted that it is becoming listed as the prime free of charge app on Apple’s App Store charts in India, Austria, France, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
Signal has also added more servers to manage the improved website traffic. The app so lengthy was applied only by journalists and activists, safety specialists only who are in the lookout of a more safe mode of communication. Signal was founded by WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.
WhatsApp facing new challenges saw 7 per cent dip in every day download as on Sunday, compared with Wednesday when the app was downloaded by almost 1.2 million customers on Jan. 10, according to Apptopia. Although it has clarified that the new privacy norms is addressed only for business enterprise accounts, but the way it is becoming pushed to and individual customer accounts has demotivated lots of to cease employing the app