In June 2021 Mark Zuckerberg announced a new Facebook project called the metaverse in an interview with The Verge. Since then, there has not been a lot of new information regarding the project. This changed a couple of days ago when Facebook released a blog post that they are going to hire 10,...

The data-privacy issues around WhatsApp have reached a critical state. After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook they constantly increase the amount of data being collected and use it to fuel recommendation algorithms of their other services.

Data privacy in WhatsApp? It does not exist

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Matrix is an open-source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. In this blog post, I will compare the Matrix protocol with some of the most commonly used centralized instant messengers, namely Whats App, Signal, and Telegram. For a compari...

In my last post, I explained why it is important that you get rid of WhatsApp as soon as possible. You might ask yourself how this would be possible since almost everybody around you uses WhatsApp as their main or only instant messenger. WhatsApp is the most commonly used instant messenger in Euro...

It all began in September 2021 when The Wall Street Journal started to publish a series of articles called The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal Investigation. It is based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions, and drafts of present...