With the latest news that WhatsApp’s new, paying business customers can manage your WhatsApp chats with them on Facebook’s backend, where those chats will fuel marketing efforts, will be poorly received. It’s also clear that the recently confirmed plans to further commercialize WhatsApp risks making that worse.Īnd for many this will be the crux, the reason they move from WhatsApp to a messenger that actually focuses on securing their communications rather than commercializing their usage. It's the capturing of this type of metadata centrally that has been a criticism of WhatsApp-it’s unclear what it monitors and captures, but it is clear that while message content is end-to-end encrypted, all of the metadata around who you know and who you message, and when, plus your groups and when you access the service can be monitored. The information needed to join the group is embedded in the link itself and only a group’s members can access the link, not Signal.” Signal’s announcement points to when it confirms that “the Signal service has no access to your group memberships, titles, avatars, or attributes, the Signal service can’t access your group links.
Signal groups are much more private and secure than those on WhatsApp- there’s no contest. If you want to move a group chat from another service to Signal, sharing a group link can simplify that.” If you’re trying to organize an event, for example, simply share your group’s link on Twitter or with another Signal chat to quickly get interested people in the group. Signal is rapidly improving its group functionality and this new move now makes it easier to set up new groups on Signal than on WhatsApp: “Group links make it easy to get people into your group without having to add them 1-by-1. Shifting the ones that you use most regularly to this non-Facebook platform could easily catch-on. Anyone who’s been using WhatsApp for some time will have a wide range of groups, some you use and some you don’t. Their intention is for you to send the link in a WhatsApp group to shift it wholesale to Signal. As Signal points out, “ you can easily share group links to another Signal chat or to other apps.
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