Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging app compared with WhatsApp to many nontechnical users.

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But the main distinction between Signal and WhatsApp is that the latter ...

Typically, I assume, those sorts of conversations aren’t had using consumer messaging platforms on the Secretary of Defense’s iPhone. Also, I sort of assume that the people involved are smart enough ...

Signal is owned by the San Francisco-based nonprofit Signal Foundation, created in 2018 by WhatsApp founders Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton. The duo sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for $19 ...

When compared to rivals like WhatsApp, Whittaker argued that competitors don’t measure up to Signal’s security. “Neither consumer nor business WhatsApp protects intimate metadata — like ...

Q: What’s the difference between Signal and WhatsApp, and should I switch? A: Until recent news involving the Signal app, it was a relatively unknown messaging app compared to WhatsApp to many ...

Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the ...

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal ...