A number of press reports during the past hours indicated that the Signal chat and instant messaging application started to know the increase in the number of its users in a very short period, which is what some linked to the new laws on use announced by the famous WhatsApp application and caused great anger among users
And the official account of the Signal chat and instant messaging application on the social networking site Twitter had posted on his account yesterday a tweet indicating a significant increase in the number of users who joined the application, which caused the delay in sending verification codes to communication operators to users and thus It caused a delay in joining the application, and the application said on its account that all users should have the right to join Signal without delay
WhatsApp has started sending notifications to users during the last period informing them of a change in the laws of use, as these changes include sharing a number of user data with Facebook and the rest of its affiliates, especially with regard to the user's name, personal photos, phone number and numbers On his contact list, status update, and other personal information that may be posted on his WhatsApp account, users will not be able to reject the new terms, and if they do not agree on the horizon of February 8, they will not be able to continue using the application
And it is not just users who expressed their dissatisfaction with the new laws adopted by WhatsApp, many personalities in the digital world have expressed their anger at this, among them the former CIA agent Edward Snowden in addition to Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, which invited its followers on Twitter to use Signal instead of WhatsApp
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