Privacy

33192 readers

585 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Signal vs Imessage vs What'sApp vs Messenger (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

51 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I don't really like Apple, but once in a while they do the right thing. This comes from the App store's new labels on apps.

Signal just has "Contact info" under the "Data NOT linked to you" category. This is just the phone number + contact discovery.

UPDATE

There's another post adding telegram here. This is what it looks like:

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (1 children)

According to the timeline on Wikipedia :

Whisper Systems was founded by Moxie Marlinspike
It was acquired by Twitter
Moxie left Twitter and founded Open Whisper Systems
Moxie and Brian Acton create the Signal foundation (a non profit) with founding by ex-What'sApp founder Brian Acton (What'sApp had already been bought by facebook).

The foundation is still here and relies on donations, to pay for development and hosting. So what your saying is near the truth (and I wasn't aware of that actually) but today Signal is a fully independent non-profit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Thanks, would that explain the change from TextSecure and RedPhone to their merger into Signal?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

You can check out the Timeline on Wikipedia, they did change the name to Signal after merging RedPhone and TextSecure.