WHAT IS SIGNAL MESSENGER APP?

#WHATSAPP PRIVACY POLICY

Signal has also been endorsed by whistleblower and privacy advocate
Edward Snowden as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
 WHAT IS SIGNAL MESSENGER?
Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by
the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC.
It was created by Moxie Marlinspike, which received initial funding
from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton.
It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can
include files, voice notes, images and videos.
It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls,
and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.
 1. IT ISN’T OWNED BY A BIG CORPORATION
Signal Messenger LLC, which works under a non-profit (like Mozilla)
called the Signal Foundation, was formed after Acton left the company
and donated $50 million to Signal. The app is widely considered the
gold standard for encrypted texting today.
 2. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S INSIDE THE APP
Because of Signal’s privacy-first approach to every aspect of the app,
and the fact that the source code (sort of like the ‘recipe’ to create an
application) is publicly available.
 3. EVERYTHING IS ENCRYPTED, INCLUDING YOUR
GIFS
Secondly, Signal encrypts everything you could think of, including your
profile photo, your voice and video calls, photos, attachments, stickers,
and location pins.
 4. SECURELY BACK UP YOUR CHATS AND KEEP
YOUR CONTACTS ON YOUR DEVICE
Signal also doesn’t send unsecured backups of your messages to the
cloud where they can be read by anyone, including Google and
WhatsApp.

Instead, they are stored in an encrypted database on your phone and

only you hold the key.
 5. YOU’LL GET THE MOST PRIVACY FRIENDLY
FEATURES FIRST
One of Signal’s oldest and most useful features is the one that lets you
make messages disappear, something that only recently came to
WhatsApp.

Users can set a timer of anything between 10 seconds to a week and

any messages older than that will simply vanish.
 6. STOP OTHER APPS ON YOUR PHONE FROM
SEEING WHAT YOU TYPE
One such feature is an Incognito Keyboard option that tells your
keyboard not to learn from what you type on the app.

Another setting on Signal for Android called the ‘Screen security’ will
stop any app from looking into your Signal window and see what
you’re typing, which is really neat.