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Privacy is the highest value on the Internet, believe the people who run the Signal Communicator. Are they really right and isn’t such a thought dangerous?
Signal – different from the competition?
One app that matches Dorsey’s views is Signal. What motivates the owners of this messenger? Individual privacy respected above all else. According to Blackman, such thinking has its advantages, but it is not without its drawbacks.
Signal – unlike Messenger or WhatsApp – does not collect metadata about users. This makes the company oblivious to their identity. It also allows you to set a timer, which contributes to the fact that after a certain time messages from users are automatically deleted.
Additionally – this time like the competition – it also uses end-to-end encryption, which prevents companies from accessing user messages. Is such a strong emphasis on privacy an ideal solution?
Privacy and Security
According to Blackman, what is worrying is that those behind Signal value one value above all others and fail to see the complexity of the world around us.
They consider the least and most necessary control to be “surveillance”, failing to see that this seemingly flawless device can also be a communication tool between terrorists and gangsters.
Is technology free from corporate and government control for the benefit of society? In theory, yes, but the question remains whether such a scenario is even possible.
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