Tesla boss Elon Musk gives wrong Signal, as consumers dump WhatsApp over ‘badly timed’ decision – ABC News

No-one had heard of this small American company called “Signal Advance” until last week  when Elon Musk accidentally made it famous.
Key points:

• WhatsApp users have until February 8 to accept its new privacy policy, or their accounts will be deleted
• The company says it can’t see your private messages or hear your calls, and won’t share your contacts with Facebook
• Downloads of encrypted messaging apps, Signal and Telegram, are surging

In a deceptively cryptic tweet, the world’s richest man told his…

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