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what measures are being taken? what does the latest research say? information and context, ah, viruses, date and the special monday to friday on dw, the one that has changes privacy policy. and this is causing a lot of protest worldwide to continue using the messenger app. and full users are required to agree to the new terms and conditions and they grant facebook increased access to private data. what's up and terms of apps. today's topic on shift the message. that's the easiest way to keep in touch with people that are important to us. the corporate 9th and ben demick has made this even more apparent in december

2020, for example. although 100000000000 messages were sent via what's up every day with around 2000000000 active users, what's that is the number one messenger app in 2nd place. also on facebook is the facebook messenger with around 1300000000 users. with 1200000 users chinese messenger, and which is my 3rd and with 550000000 users, the most popular independent messenger app is telegram. let's go back to the market leader with one in 3 people over the age of 13. using was that it's truly a global setup. it's also a huge source of income for its parent company. facebook which collects private data to create profiles. these other used, for example, for personalized advertising. it's actually a common business model, but many say lots of new terms and conditions, go to font, data protection groups. and so what's new, what's left messages are encrypted. when you send a message,

it only gets to kept it on the receiver's device. under the new terms and conditions, end to end encryption will be mean, meaning chat content will still be confidential. but when you use whatever, so called meta data is accumulated to companies use this data to extrapolate valuable information on how a person uses their device or find out their network of friends. according to what that new privacy policy. this data will now be passed on to his parent company based on the e. u is the only place for him it it when facebook acquired, what's that special regulation was put in place? jennifer king is an expert and information privacy at stanford university in california. she wants that passing on data can have dangerous consequences. they, you why swap the different types of information to, to target you? he's often think about this only kind of online commerce and online shopping,

but it goes much more broadly. i mean, certainly in this country in the us, we saw the controversies around facebook's participation in our elections and election advertising. and we also seen how much the algorithms that facebook uses can recommend content to you, especially facebook groups have led to people becoming more radical wise in europe, passing on data within a company. and the massive individual data is prohibited according to the general data protection regulation. but facebook's plan has also provoked criticism in the u. s. and many other countries whose has the response. facebook clarified that it was only going to collect information from chaps concerning communication with companies. but this would allow facebook to receive data on the consumer behavior of users, for instance, the static and then be used to make more money with personalized advertising. ready

and there's a further motive behind the cooperation with the calculator. because the more of that, a company like facebook can argue that they cannot possibly disentangle. all of these other companies that they've acquired from the core of facebook. the more leverage i believe they feel like they have in trying to fight anti trust concerns that are currently being raised here in the us. what you don't have a choice. they don't accept the new conditions. they won't be able to use all the app familiar functions. since watson's new terms and conditions where now is at the beginning of this year, more and more people have been looking for alternatives. popular choice is signal in january, he even hit number one for a short time in apples app store, fun fact. what's and found a brian acting and of a 3000000000 euros when facebook bought was app. today, he's a big fan of signal to even call found that the nonprofits signal to nation,

which for most open source privacy technologies and to give the foundation 50000000 euros a start up capital. an important contribution to success ah, signal is a messenger that focuses on user privacy. the data is encrypted using the open source signal protocol, which is where the app gets. labels users and encrypted messages, photos, videos, and documents to another user or group checks ah, was created by an expert new by his student. the modeling spice previously worked for different tech security companies and have been twitters cheap technology officer. in 2013 moxie left with her and funded open whisper signals. predecessor is fans exclusive, prominent named ben tech circles christiana this edward snowden. and what's your favorite dorsey appraised being extremely cure genuine test,

yolanda treated you signal last year. the european commission also recommends using signals that are privacy experts appreciate signal to getting the message or a thumbs up. the other apps do encrypt their transmission. but signal is trying to build a business off of essentially guaranteeing that the communications between you and other signal users are completely private. they don't hold what we call the keys encryption keys to those messages. and whether you're concerned about other individuals, hackers or the government signal probably text all those boxes signal has declared an offensive on facebook's or pig data policy. for example, with as like this one, they were supposed to be on the photo platform instagram. the advertise to be

tailored to the individual user using data that advertisers can purchase this data, include hobbies, locations, and even opinions on socio political issues. pretty scary stuff. they never showed up on instagram. facebook claims that signals campaign never got started. signal says they were blocked, one thing is certain low. the issue has definitely raised awareness and privacy telegram has also profited from the controversy surrounding what's up today more than 550000000 people worldwide use this app. the most popular alternative to what's happening isn't signal but telegram launched by pablo draws from russia. telegram registered $150000000.00 new users in the 1st month of this year. switching to telegram is easy. traps can be imported from what sap with just one click. thanks to a browser extension, the app can also be used on your desktop. this works because telegram uses

a cloud service. if you don't want to save messages to the cloud, you need to set up a so called secret chat messages and then paste your own device for self destruct time for messages and files is another feature that protects your privacy. i would encourage you to put some type of expiration date on things because one thing you always need to assume that when you join online service that they are going to have the default set to the maximal exposure. they'll want you to keep chaps around, you know, if there's an option to share data, it'll probably be selected also a little bit of homework and try to familiarize yourself with what that platform does. a kilogram and signal run on android as well as the i o. s. operating system . kilogram is advert free and doesn't allow it's content to be regulated. sounds good, but it has led to in germany for example,

gathering and huge chat groups and spreading hay posts and say use the messenger service provided by the gaming pad from this cord is also becoming increasingly popular. first, ahead with gaming fans. it now has around 150000000 users worldwide. that's twice as many as last year. we've taken a closer look at this highlighting app. discord was originally designed as a plot for gamers. but now you can also thing groups called servers to talk about other things. you can start your own server or join an existing want to meet like minded people. ever since the number of discord users double to reach a 150000000. however, the most popular communities are often already full. dimitri williams is an associate professor, teaches courses gaming, and he explains the industry in times of the coolant 19 that demick. this are the same we see across gaming in this course, not only a gaming app,

but gaming is a 2060 percent across. most platforms has, people have flocked to find some kind of social outlet when they otherwise couldn't each other face to face the many different functions and discourse are one reason why people are turning to the app to keep in touch with friends. chat rooms can easily be personalized. you can create subgroups called channels with different privileges for individual users. oh, and you can communicate via video or voice chat more. you can also share your screen on your they are actually some gaming centric platforms that are still around venture low and team speak. there are still used by some gaming cultures. this card has some more functionality, it's user experience or you x is a little bit nicer and smoother and cleaner. it's also notable that it isn't driven by advertising. and that if you go there,

you don't feel quite so surveilled by commercial interests. i think that's a bit of an appeal. there's a catch the discord, the platform that was developed for gamers. and the messages sent via the san francisco bass provider do not have end to end encryption. and to and encryption. very important to me. so discord is currently not an option even though i'd really like to stop using walter. but then most of my friends are still there. you hundreds, caspar data protection commission and hamburg has issued an order, which only applies in germany. looks are indoors, fans into german users are currently protected by this order binding phase 2 from processing or data. right? i mean, i have to see if this order, which is limited to remodel on the be taken up to the european level to farms are pretty up. we're trying to get our holly from the european data

protection board, including to join us groups also submit seats. international standardized data protection is something i would like to see implemented. i think it's a scandal that facebook can't or won't make their terms and conditions more transparent. i want to have more control of my personal data. and as the global success of alternative apps shows, i'm not the only one. what's your opinion? have you thought about switching to an alternative app, or are you worried that it might be hard to just stay in touch with your friends? there's no on d, w dot com on our you tube channels. that's all for me today. see you again soon. ah. in the ah

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