Why you should move from WhatsApp to Signal

WhatsApp recently changed its privacy policy publicly acknowledging that it will share data with other Facebook companies. But there is something else far more scary.

Aman Dalmia
2 min readJan 9, 2021

Disclaimer: My focus has been on broadly clarifying the main issue with WhatsApp’s new Privacy Policy change in simple terms. Hence, I might have ignored some technical details or might have even gotten a few details incorrect. Please message me or comment here if you find any mistake. I’ll be happy to incorporate any feedback.

White paper (page 4), tweet
For a detailed analysis, you can watch this video
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If you found this helpful, please share it amongst your friends, family and colleagues. We have to protect our data together. If you are not convinced that caring about our data is important, I would highly recommend that you watch “The Social Dilemma”.

Special thanks to Pritam Sukumar, Joanna Sundharam and Naman Dalmia for providing their valuable feedback on this blog post.

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Aman Dalmia

Curious about almost everything. Passionate about climate change and education. Trying to be helpful!