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Most of the attention focused on Facebook this week has centered on the company’s oversight board and its decision to permit the platform’s ban of Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a weirder controversy about Facebook’s ads and privacy policies has been playing out between the social media giant and encrypted messaging service Signal. Signal initiated the spat on May 4 when Jun Harada, the company’s head of growth and communication, posted on the Signal blog about a set of ads that Harada said Signal had tried to run on Instagram. Instead, Facebook blocked the ads and shut down Signal’s adve...

You have to give it to Signal for daring to run an ad on Instagram that “exposes” the ad-targeting practices of the latter’s parent company Facebook. However, the social media giant is wise to their ways and has now not only banned the actual ads but they have also disabled Signal’s ad account altogether. The […]

Taking a cue from its rival WhatsApp, the fast-growing encrypted messaging app Signal has announced to let users send money in cryptocurrency to friends and relatives, as it tests a new peer-to-peer payments system in the beta version of its app. Called Signal Payments, the new feature that is available in the UK first will currently support a privacy-focused payments network called MobileCoin, which has its own currency, MOB. "As always, our goal is to keep your data in your hands rather than ours; MobileCoin's design means Signal does not have access to your balance, full transaction his...

(Pocket-lint) - Signal has announced it is testing a new peer-to-peer payment feature, but only in the beta version of its apps. Called Signal Payments, it will work like Venmo or Square Cash, allowing you to send money to friends who also use the app. But there is a caveat. The new feature currently only supports the MobileCoin wallet and its cryptocurrency MOB. Signal co-founder and CEO Moxie Marlinspike has worked as an advisor for the company, so the decision to support its protocol is not too surprising.  “The first payments protocol we’ve added support for is a privacy-focused paym...

Signal tests peer-to-peer payments via cryptocurrency ​ By IANS | ​ 3 Views Signal tests peer-to-peer payments via cryptocurrency. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, April 7 : Taking a cue from its rival WhatsApp, the fast-growing encrypted messaging app Signal has announced to let users send money in cryptocurrency to friends and relatives, as it tests a new peer-to-peer payments system in the beta version of its app. Called Signal Payments, the new feature that is available in the UK first will currently support a privacy-focused payments network called MobileCoin, which has its own c...