A surge in the Telegram messaging app after the news of WhatsApp’s change to its privacy terms starting from 8 February, which will not affect Italy and Europe, where the GDPR, the European regulation on the protection of data, has been in force since 2018. personal data. Telegram has registered 25 million new users worldwide in the past 72 hours, as stated by its Russian-born founder Pavel Durov.
The app had over 500 million monthly active users in the first weeks of January – WhatsApp has two billion – and “25 million new users have signed up for Telegram in the last 72 hours alone. – Durov specified – People no longer want to exchange their privacy with free services ”.
For the founder of Telegram, the app has become the “greatest refuge” for those looking for a private and secure communication platform and has assured new users that his team “takes this responsibility very seriously”.
Another chat that has seen a surge in downloads in digital stores after criticism of WhatsApp is Signal, also recommended by Elon Musk, currently the richest man in the world and patron of Tesla and Space X.
“Despite the obligation to accept the new terms of service, there will be no increase in the sharing of data between different companies or any kind of significant change”, Ernesto Belisario, lawyer expert in technology law, explains to ANSA, who underlines data was already shared between WhatsApp and Facebook, such as the email with which users register for the service or information on the device from which the app is used. Whatsapp asked users to accept the new terms of service and not to give a new privacy consent, a frequent practice “, underlines
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