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The government has stepped in following privacy concerns over the Facebook-owned messaging app's new update which gives WhatsApp the right to share user data

Signal has witnessed a never-seen-before surge in new users, days after WhatsApp updated its privacy policy. Signal, the encrypted messaging service, has been chosen as the more secure alternative to the Facebook-owned messaging app. In the past few days, it has become the most downloaded app in India, Germany, France, Austria, Finland, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Watch the video for more.

WhatsApp last week updated its privacy policy that will go into effect from February 8. Telegram has been sharing memes on Twitter trying to convince users that it is a better platform.

Signal App: Signal is a messaging application which can be downloaded on Apple (iPhone and iPad), Android, and Mac and Linux devices

Signal said it is seeing such a surge in new users that it is witnessing delays in phone number verifications of new accounts

The policy update message enraged WhatsApp users with a host of them threatening to leave the app and join its rivals. And its rivals -- Telegram and Signal -- were just waiting to hear that

1.4 billion was also the highest number of calls registered on the messaging platform in a single day. This year, the number of calls on January 1 increased by 50 per cent compared to last year's New Year's Eve

Apple has begun prompting iPhone users in India and elsewhere for certain apps that need to track you across other apps and websites.

Facebook Inc and its other apps have dominated in the top-5 list of most-downloaded applications this year. Facebook has stood as the second-most downloaded app, WhatsApp Messenger third, and Instagram fifth, according to App Annie's list

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a coalition of attorney generals from up to 40 states separately, are preparing antitrust suits against Facebook reportedly over the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Google Hangouts users will no longer be able to use the group video calling feature on the Android app and the web version.

Google has begun rolling out RCS to everyone globally along with beginning the trials for end-to-end encryption inside the Messages app.

In Vanish Mode, Messenger and Instagram users can send text chats, emoji, pictures, GIFs, voice messages and stickers, which will disappear after they've been seen and users leave the chat, Facebook explains

Days after WhatsApp announced the disappearing messages feature, Facebook too is rolling out a similar feature for Messenger.

The customers can now book an LPG refill just by typing REFILL on WhatsApp Messenger

The telcos have been directed to publish details of each tariff plan for postpaid and prepaid subscribers, and offer information to subscribers at customer care centres, points of sales, retail outlets and websites, and apps with requisite disclosures

The new app by social media giant would let users manage the business accounts across Messenger, Instagram and Facebook.

The tech giant made a series of purchases, including DoubleClick and AdMob, to help make it the dominant player in online advertising

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