![]() Similarly, iMessage is encrypted by default, but Apple ![]() ![]() (Facebook did not reply to request for comment.) WhatsApp, for example, is also encrypted but does store metadata - the information about who you are messaging and where, and is owned by Facebook The app, which is recommended by Snowden himself to avoid surveillance, allows users to send encryption-protected information to others who also use the app and collects and stores very little data about users. To avoid surveillance - by governments or others users - you should switch to more secure apps for messaging, like Signal, which is free for download on iTunes and Google Play. “People are feeling an overwhelming sense of being creeped out by the aggregate of these stories,” he said.įor average citizens starting to think about how to keep their communications out of reach of Big Brother, here are some of the ways to lock down devices and keep government entities, advertisers and corporations out of your daily lives. He said each new round of revelations fuels the growing anxiety U.S. Still, the revelations are not the first to suggest the government is surveilling citizens - in fact, they aren’t much different from the documents National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked in 2013, according to Mark Weinstein, a privacy advocate and chief executive officer of social network MeWe. “Authorities would want to have a very good reason to use those techniques and the vast majority of people are outside the scope of what they’d be used for,” he said. To be clear, the techniques released in these documents are “very targeted,” said Sydney, Australia-based security researcher Troy Hunt.
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