Elon Musk has often criticised Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (File)
New Delhi:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk s Use Signal tweet led to a massive number of signups for the alternative app to WhatsApp. This came after the Mark Zuckerberg-owned instant messaging app changed its privacy policy. WhatsApp will now share more data with parent company Facebook which has raised security concerns.
Mr Musk, through his tweet, apparently implied that WhatsApp users should switch to Signal. His tweet was liked and retweeted thousands of times.
Signal is a well-known privacy-focused messaging app, that is widely used by security experts, privacy researchers, academics, and journalists around the world. The Signal protocol also underpins WhatsApp s end-to-end encryption, although one key difference is that Signal is open source, while WhatsApp is not.