Billions use popular messaging apps like Whatsapp daily to communicate via text, audio, picture and video.  Whatsapp and competitors Signal and Telegram offer encrypted communications which prevent governments, police, and cyber criminals from accessing those communications.  All three offer group chats and a disappearing messages option to automatically delete messages. Whatsapp and Signal support group …

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If you’d like to pay for file sharing capabilities without giving away your privacy for free, choose pCloud instead of Google Drive. Yes, Google gives 15GB of space for free.  But that space is shared with Gmail and Google Photos, too.  Although pCloud only offers 2GB of free space, which can be increased to 10GB …

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Unlike it’s much larger competitor, MeWe won’t sell your information and has no advertisements or any other targeted (blood pressure-raising) content.  And, it won’t moderate your content.  MeWe can’t compare with Facebook in terms of number of users, but Facebook’s recent issues with selling user data and long history of security lapses are encouraging users …

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