Signal is completely free to use its users can send messages, make audio and video calls, share media and links, just like other messaging apps. It was used during the Black lives matter protest in the US and the end SARS protests in Nigeria when there hints that the government was spying protesters. Signal is also often used during revolutions because of its data policy. One of the advantages of Signal being owned by a non profit is that it’s not influenced by the need to use its users data to garner revenue from advertisers. Acton, who left WhatsApp back in 2017, has put in around $50 million to help with funding Signal. The Signal Foundation was created by WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, and Marlinspike. The app is developed by the Signal Foundation and it is a non-profit company. Unlike WhatsApp, Signal is not owned by Facebook. The app was created by Moxie Marlinspike, an American cryptographer and the current CEO of Signal Messenger. It’s worth noting that WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol for its end-to-end encryption feature. Signal’s tagline is ‘Say Hello to Privacy’ and the service is end-to-end encrypted just like WhatsApp. Signal is a messaging app, available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux. In response to Whatsapp’s recent privacy policy, Signal has seen an influx of over 100,000 new users in the past few days. I didn’t expect to see many other users I knew but to my surprise, I saw over 50 of my contacts already on the app. You can call it the bandwagon effect, but I just wanted to see what the hype was about. The WhatsApp rival that has been endorsed by Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and many others.
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