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Users are dissatisfied with the new provisions for the use of WhatsApp information and migrate to Signal and Telegram The outlook was darkened to WhatsApp with its new information use policies. Photo: Unsplash
Surely WhatsApp You never imagined that with the privacy policy update data usage was going to greatly benefit its competition .
This week Signal and Telegram have enjoyed a accelerated increase in downloads because the users search increased privacy , which they consider will be lost with the new policies that will implement WhatsApp from February 8 .
According to analysis signature data Sensor Tower , more of 100, 01 users downloaded Signal from the Apple and Google app stores in the last two days, while Telegram amassed almost 2.2 million from downloads.
All this because the users of WhatsApp consider that the social messaging network is abusing of his popularity and you want to force them to accept your conditions .
Some privacy advocates on Twitter defined the measure as a message of “ accept that we steal your data or leave “, others even made a protest call asking to remove Instagram and Facebook , which are also owned by Mark Zuckerberg .
In this mass migration also had to do with Elon Musk , CEO of Tesla, because endorsed with a message on Twitter that read “ use Signal ”, which was later shared by the head of the social media platform, Jack Dorsey .
Use Signal
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021
WhatsApp released in a statement that many of its users are using the application to chat with companies and that updates were necessary for “ increase transparency “.
Ensures that the update does not change the practices of data exchange of WhatsApp with Facebook and does not affect the way that people communicate privately with friends or family and promised to continue protecting user privacy.
Finally WhatsApp may be the messaging application world’s most popular , used by more than 2, 000 millions of people in more than 180 countries , but the feel of users is of disagreement and do not agree that Facebook and its affiliates collect your data, including the number of phone and location .
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