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Tesla boss Elon Musk gives wrong Signal, as consumers dump WhatsApp over ‘badly timed’ decision – ABC News
The world’s most popular messaging app, WhatsApp, is being abandoned by users across the world for its “take it or leave it” privacy policy, which forces them to…
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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