Mientras Signal y Telegram registran digits record of new users, WhatsApp is located in the center of criticism for the exchange of its terms of use and privacy.
The messaging application announces the previous week that it will share different data from its users with its Facebook matrix, and that it will be able to do the same with its Instagram and Messenger platforms.
In the midst of inquiries, WhatsApp has announced its new terms and conditions, which will be accepted by the users on February 8, and will be misinterpreted.
“We want to clarify that the policy update does not affect any way of privacy of the messages that users share with their friends and relatives ”, signaled the platform in a communication issued on Monday.
Add that some of the questions made son “gerugte”.
After these arguments, the long debate regarding which instant messaging service is most secure, has been revived from the exchange on WhatsApp.
Y aunque pueden parecer similar to a simple view, las tres aplicaciones tienen algunas differences most important that we analyze here.
The recovered dates
The first thing that I have to say is that, among the three messaging platforms that have the most in the last few days, there are distinct levels of data that are being retrieved.
You are not as important as the central pork, but it is an information about WhatsApp, which you want to share with Facebook and a las otras aplicaciones que esa compañía posee.
WhatsApp possesses many metadata, which is the information that is obtained from any message that we send, such as the phone brand, the time of the message, your job and others. Con ello puede saber mucho de sus usuarios ”, explica Cristian León, responsible part of the program of the renewal of the civic organization Asuntos del Sur, condemned and Argentina.
The digital rights expert told BBC Mundo that this messaging application, which is the most popular in the world, has a closed programming code and has little transparency about what it recovers.
The WhatsApp web page details the data that is obtained and the information that a person fires to accept its terms of uso. In addition to the number, telephone number and contacts, there are details of the use of the platform (time or yield, for example), transactions from the application, brand and model of the device or type of connection, among others.
Telegram y Signal, eksplikant León, recopilan mucho menos datos.
The first required of its users is the telephone number, number and contact list.
For your part Signal limit to ask the phone number and add the number is optional.
These ten programming codes are open, so it is possible to scrub some balls that date them and that are related to them.
The great preoccupation: the messages
Since the expansion of mobile messaging applications has begun all over the world, the great demand lies with the security of the messages that are exchanged.
The platforms are evolving with respect and since we have years that Signal in WhatsApp establishmentlecieron the extreme number to extreme as a predetermined function for all users’ conversations.
If it is a candied species that only the emitter and the recipient of the message can open.
In theory, I would not mention the applications in which the exchange can be accessed to the contents of the charles.
‘Ni WhatsApp ni Facebook pueden leer tus mensajes do not listen to the calls that you have with your friends, relatives or partners on WhatsApp. Anything that counts will be shared between you ”, ensures the platform in its communication of the moon.
Telegram appears to have an adventure in this aspect given that the extreme and only cipher is active when using the “secret chat” mode, for regular conversations not taking place with this function.
The three offerings also have a modality that is most used known as “temporary messages” in that text, photographs, submissions or documents shared in a conversation are self-destructed after a short time.
The difference is that in WhatsApp the messages appear in the following pages, while only in Signal and Telegram you can configure the time so that you do not have to interrupt the second few actions.
Another difference is that the application that provides Facebook does not have the option of block capture of conversations for the conversations, while their competitors are included.
Los usos
If it is logical that the Mayor is limited to use these applications to maintain contact with his acquaintances, different disputes are produced in the last years.
For example, it was discovered that Telegram was used as a medium of propaganda for the Islamic State.
The extremist group captaba recruits from allies and approves the encrypted group conversations to maintain communications and broadcast videos of its actions.
And since then it has been known that one of the platforms that the right-wing groups use to disseminate their messages, even the majority of them use other applications that allow anonymous interactions to convince them to divide their activities.
WhatsApp also has two issues and in 2019 decided to eliminate hundreds of miles of suspicious accounts from using its child pornography distribution service.
The company maintains a policy of tolerance close to the sexual exploitation of minors.
The application, which has different analysis, has been unveiled, along with Facebook, one of the mayoral channels of diffusion of false notices in electoral times in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia or the United States.
Signal, which has less users than the previous ones, has not yet been used as a channel to capture and disseminate false information.
However, there have been some controversial political controversies since it was announced that the president of Catalonia’s regional governor, Carles Puigdemont, was trying to communicate with one of his allies with the intention of declaring his independence.