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...