Users are demanding greater care for their privacy and security when handling messaging applications. Thanks to these platforms, all kinds of barriers have been broken as we have commented on other occasions. However, this also has its risks not only due to the threats that hackers may create, but also due to the use that the developers of these tools themselves can make of the data of the millions of people who use them every day.
Whatsapp It has received a lot of criticism in recent weeks for functions such as the new video statuses and others in which it would be working, such as the sample of the location of the users. Can this give your rivals more immediate to gain ground? Below we tell you how they guarantee the privacy the other most downloaded from the public.
Telegram
With several hundred million downloads, this application claims to be safe. This has been achieved thanks to functions such as the encryption of the conversations and other content such as images or small clips, which WhatsApp included a long time later but only in the texts, and the self-destruction of the messages.
Line
Labeled by many as the second most used after WhatsApp, Line has managed, according to its creators, to be number 1 in various Asian and African countries. Among its strengths are the possibility of making video calls and group chats of up to 200 people. Privacy here comes through features like Keep, which allows you to create folders in which all the contents that you want to save are dumped.
Allo
Third, we find Google's bet. Launched together with other platforms such as Trip, encryption is once again the most effective method to protect users. Inside of the "Incognito mode«, It also allows you to receive private notifications and put an expiration date on the messages so that they are automatically deleted after a while.
Wire
We conclude with an app that, although it is not as well known as WhatsApp or those that follow it in the ranking, has also managed to position itself as one of the safest due to the encryption, in which only the chosen recipients can decrypt the messages, the absence of the requirement to leave a phone number to register in the application and handle it and also, the fact that it does not contain advertising and that all its servers are in Switzerland, which guarantees, according to its creators, that the data is not sold or used by companies.
Do you think that many of these measures in the end end up being merely propaganda and that they are not applied, or do you think that the apps are betting decisively on privacy? You have more related information available on more tools of this type such as Chomp SMS so that you can give your own opinion.