Battle of the secure messaging apps: how signal beats whatsapp
THIS SPRING, TEXT messages got a lot more private. In April, the world’s most popular messaging service, WhatsApp, announced it would use end-to-end encryption to protect privacy by default for all users, making it virtually impossible for anyone to intercept private WhatsApp privacy, even if they work at Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, or at the world’s most powerful electronic spying agency, the NSA. Then in May, tech giant Google announced a brand new messaging app called Allo that also supports end-to-end encryption to protect users’ private data on mobile devices.