New WhatsApp terms cause people to dump it

New WhatsApp terms cause people to dump it. WhatsApp, which uses Signal’s encryption technology, laid out fresh terms on Wednesday, asking users to agree to let owner Facebook and its subsidiaries collect user data, including their phone number and location.

The Signal and Telegram messaging apps are seeing a sudden increase in demand after larger rival WhatsApp’s updated terms of service raised eyebrows on social media. Some privacy activists questioned the “accept our data grab or get out” move on Twitter, and suggested users to switch to apps like Signal and Telegram.

Signal’s popularity shot up further on Thursday after it was endorsed by Elon Musk, who has one of the most-followed accounts on Twitter, and by the micro-blogging site’s top boss, Jack Dorsey.

More than 100 000 users installed Signal across the app stores of Apple and Google in the last two days, while Telegram picked up nearly 2.2 million downloads, according to data analytics firm Sensor Tower.

New installs of WhatsApp fell 11% in the first seven days of 2021 compared to the prior week, but that still amounted to an estimated 10.5 million downloads globally, Sensor Tower said.

Source – Bulawayo24

In other news – Police: If you die in Harare you will be buried in Harare

Police: If you die in Harare you will be buried in Harare. Police have since been ordered to block any movement of corpses. The government announced the measures last night as 978 new cases and 24 deaths were recorded countrywide.

The government has said that from now on, people who die will be buried in towns or areas in which they would have died and there will be no body-viewing…Learn More.