(CNN Business) –– Millions of users have signed up for Signal, an encrypted messaging application, during the last days. This is why this week marks the first number 1 in the Google Play Store and also in the main lists of free applications of the Apple App Store.
Signal registration of 7.5 million from instalaciones a nivel mundial and App Store and Google Play is offered by the latest pasado y el domingo. That equals to more than 43 times the number of installations that took place in the previous week, according to the company Sensor Tower.
The encrypted messaging services like Signal have gained popularity in recent years. It should be noted that the persons present are most concerned about protecting their private information. Without embarrassment, this recent increase in the number of Signal users has resulted in the confusion by a notification about the update of WhatsApp service terms, the Facebook message encrypted app.
However, Signal also received a weekly response to varying numbers of Silicon Valley’s most important numbers. Includes Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The big jump in the new Signal downloads will be followed by stories from Washington City. And through the media from Amazon, Apple and Google to cut corners with Parler, the social media service favored by members of the extreme right. Telegram, another digital mailing application, said this March that it would attract 25 million new users to the world level during the 72 previous hours. Así, base the total active users ascending 500 millone.
The huge increase in Signal traffic provoked some failures. Este jueves, Sein tuiteó verification codes for new user registers can be accessed at any time. And he explained that it was said that “many new people are trying to unite Signal at this moment (we can register our emotion)”. The problem is resolved during the end of the week.
“Currently we have a record level of downloads for the Signal application worldwide,” says a Signal member in a Reddit el viernes publication.
What happened to WhatsApp?
WhatsApp started to notify its users about the latest update on its terms of service and privacy policy. Terms and Conditions must be accepted in order to continue using the application submitted on 8 February.
Many users express their concern about a section of the WhatsApp privacy policy that details that data is retrieved and shared with the Facebook company. Exactly, a company that has a questionable reputation when it comes to protecting user data.
All private messages between individuals and the majority of WhatsApp companies are protected by extreme and extreme encryption. This means that the application can not be shared or shared with Facebook. (Users will be notified antes of chat with the account of a company in which the messages do not have extreme and extreme numbers). Per WhatsApp, additionally, retrieves other user information. For example, if and when using the application, and information of the user device, as well as IP directories.
WhatsApp privacy policy establishes that user information that can be retrieved can be shared with other Facebook companies. This, it explains, “to help you operate, promote, improve, understand, personalize, respond to and commercialize our services and offers.”
Well, these are data exchange practices with no new ones, agreed with the company.
This is what has changed: WhatsApp privacy has been updated to the last world level in 2016. At the moment, WhatsApp users have the opportunity to opt in to sharing data with Facebook, which is available soon. In this last update, the reference to the voluntary exclusion option that expires is eliminated.
The most significant update of the policy is related to the commercial users of WhatsApp. The signal is that companies using WhatsApp to talk to customers can opt-in to record their conversations on Facebook’s dating services.
This notification about an update of the terms and privacy policy of WhatsApp can be caused by the fact that some users are confused with other messaging services like Signal.
«The update does not change the exchange practices of dates of WhatsApp with Facebook. And it does not affect the way in which people communicate privately with friends or relatives anywhere in the world “, said a WhatsApp spokesperson in a communication. También agrees that the company is “deeply compromised by protecting the privacy of individuals”.
In summary: after accepting the new terms, do not share WhatsApp user data with additional Facebook and those who share antes. It is hoped that the voluntary exclusion will be approved in 2016.
WhatsApp intends to remove the confusion about actualized politics. Inklusief, publishes frequently asked questions about privacy practices.
What is the Sein application for?
While WhatsApp’s policy is not new, the controversy has called attention to data exchange practices between this application and Facebook. Conditions that many people may not have led to to click “accept”. It can be used by users to abandon WhatsApp, and Signal will be the most popular alternative.
Signal is another free application that proposes encrypted messaging, telephone calls and video. “Enrolled” means that the content of the messages is codified until it reaches the recipient and no intermediary can lose it. The application is directed by the organization sin fines of lucro Signal Foundation, which was launched in 2018. In addition, the foundation accounts with the help of the co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, who started WhatsApp and Facebook the year before.
Acton dijo in a communication of 2018 in which it announced the launch of the foundation that Signal has as an objective construct «sustainable technology that respects users and is not based on the mercantilization of personal data».
In the middle of the avalanche of new registers, Signal is launching new features similar on WhatsApp. In between, fund slips for chats and an “access” section for user profiles. Additionally, a new Apple policy that requires applications to promote an etiquette that details its privacy practices in the App Store can facilitate users’ comparisons with the policies of various messaging applications.
Signal not responding to a request for comment on the registration of new registrations.
The application has received some high profile responses. Musk de Tesla tuiteó the 7th of January came: «Usen Signal». The President of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, lo retuiteó and published a book image of Signal in the superior part of the App Store list, aggregating a corollary in its message.
NSA frontwoman Edward Snowden also retuiteó Musk’s post, with the message: “Eso es @signalapp, para aquellos que no hablan Elon”.
Aunque sus tweet no mencionaron or a Facebook or a WhatsApp, but also for Musky como Dorsey and the critic of the gigante de las redes sociales.
Sondeverbod, some personalities instituted confundidas around the Musk council. Signal Advance’s actions, a small technology technology company based in Texas that are not related to the messaging application, will be down more than 6.000% in the later days of Musk’s, before moderating March.
Signal, the messaging application, published a suggestive all about the confusion. »Are the stock analysts referring to it as saying that the market is giving mixed signals?». (The word “sein” translates to Spanish as “senal”).