The UK’s majority political party, the Conservative Party, is officially switching from WhatsApp for its group messaging platform, as noted by The Guardian. The new app of choice? Signal, a private messaging app the offers end-to-end encryption for messages and calls, the ability to make messages disappear automatically after a set period of time, and the capability to add all 365 Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) to the same group.
While the size of messaging groups is being cited as the main reason for the switch, another important reason cites years of leaks from using WhatsApp.
Of course if you really want to be secure you’d want to do what the French government did by adopting Riot and hosting the server and encryption themselves. No externally hosted service can be fully trusted but its good that the realisation is starting to dawn on many.
See https://www.androidcentral.com/uks-leading-political-party-switches-private-messaging-app-signal
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#^The UK’s majority political party switches to private messaging app Signal
You may not have heard of it, but Signal is one of the most popular private message apps on the Play Store, and now the UK’s majority political party has chosen to use it over WhatsApp, signaling a big change in how government messaging is about to take place.