Empowering Users with Phone Number Privacy: One of the key highlights of the update is the ability to hide phone numbers from certain individuals or even make them ...

WhatsApp made one of its most controversial changes to its privacy policy last week. The new policy gives the app more freedom to integrate with Facebook and let users chat with businesses easily; ...

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it’s introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations for free, along with ...

Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is expanding into a new frontier: payments. Signal announced on Tuesday that as a part of ...

Signal is launching usernames, the company announced today. Up until now, you have had to give someone your phone number to chat with them on Signal. Now you can create a unique username that you can ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

In the wake of a confusing and sometimes misreported change to Facebook-owned encrypted messaging service WhatsApp’s privacy policy, Signal Private Messenger has seen a rush of new users. Millions of ...

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against. Today, ...