Whatsapp Policy Changed! If you are a user read this if you value your privacy very much.

The New Whatsapp Unfriendly Policy, It's Effects and It's Better Alternatives

The Tech giant Facebook which also own whatsapp, a social messaging service with billions of user across the globe has served a new policy for their social messaging app that isn't going to augur well for its user part of which involves the monitoring of their user date in terms of and not limited to their real-time status updates, messages, payment details (as the app is introducing a new function called "Transaction and Payments), Profile picture, phone IMEI, mobile network, location etc.

In all, it means privacy now on whatsapp is going to be or almost be a thing of the past as any and all of your data is going to be shared with Facebook as there is even no longer going to be any end -end encryption of messages on whatsapp.

This is certainly a bad move because the data of it user is gonna be exposed in the open in the long-run and might even be exploited by the social media  group, Facebook.

Having seen this, staying on whatsapp is a matter of choice if you still feel you find it better to use compare to other platforms.

However there are alternatives suggested below, should incase you want to leave the social media messenger for a much better option. They are

Signal

The cross-platform messaging app developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC is similar to WhatsApp in more ways than one. You can send private or group messages to buddies and family – including the capability to send files, pictures, audio files or make voice/video calls. Add to that features like onscreen privacy options, anti-surveillance tools and disappearing messages and you might actually fancy the service.

The open-source free app has a very clear privacy policy, the messages are end-to-end encrypted – any user data is not linked to the identity and user data is not stored on the servers. Even the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, has urged users to use Signal over the user data and privacy concerns that Facebook has long been alleged for. This has already sky-rocketed downloads for the app, to a good measure.

Telegram

Another free to use platform that presents itself as a decent alternative to WhatsApp. Telegram is also end-to-end encrypted and it uses a more secure MTProto protocol for high-grade security. Telegram uses a peculiar distributed infrastructure wherein the relevant decryption keys are divided into two parts – and they are “never kept in the same place as the data they protect.”

The app has been playing second fiddle to WhatsApp for quite some time now but the fortunes are destined to change. The service brings the usual features like any other messaging app and some quirky ones too. There is the ability to create super groups of up to 100,000 people, sharing of big files – up to 1.5GB, end-to-end encrypted secret chats.

You can even play games within the app via the game bots and by-the-way voice call feature is worth mentioning. The only gripe is the lack of video calling – so, if that isn’t a deal-breaker, Telegram is an excellent option.

Flaim

A messenger also possessing the whatsapp-kind of architecture, is also a very good alternative as it can do almost anything the whatsapp messenger could do.

It is a free messaging app that allows you to stay in touch with friends and family, wherever they may be. Send messages, make calls, chat over video, and share the moments that matter most. Use flaim with your phone's network connection withith Wi-Fi; The flaim app, is the app that gives back.

Threema

If Signal ,Telegram, Flaim are not  your thing, then there’s another app to explore. The paid app is for those who don’t want to compromise with their personal data in any way. The open-source app is end-to-end encrypted and creates as little data as possible on the servers. Everything from your private files, voice calls to the group chats, and location data are 100-percent secure with Threema.

The app uses an 8-digit ID rather than using your existing phone number, that way it adds another layer of personal data protection to the package. Also, another privacy advantage comes in the form of non-login to the IP addresses or the metadata, thus eliminating any chances of tracking users or profiling them altogether.

You are welcome to like and comment below on what your view is about the new whatsapp policy is if there are much better alternatives not included that we need to know about.

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