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Fortunately, they arrive often good news from Brussels and from European Union. For example the GDPR it is in fact one breath of oxygen in the jungle of online privacy. Today, however, we want to tell you that Brussels recommends using Signal. If you are interested in learning more about the topic Whatsapp and Signal In the meantime, we recommend our article on alternatives to Whatsapp.
Brussels recommends using Signal
There European Commission he did asked explicitly to its staff don't use Whatsapp anymore for communications but to switch to Signal. Again according to the newspaper Politic in fact all communications between Commission staff and people external to the organisation they must happen with Signal. For internal communications and confidential documents, however, the will still be used encrypted emails. If you are interested in an easy-to-use encrypted email you can read our article on alternatives to Gmail (That Not it's encrypted!)
After some accident the EU asks to use Signal
Obviously, as often happens, the request occurs after some security incident. In fact in June 2018 the European Union embassy in Moscow suffered a data breach second BuzzFeed. And, still in the same year, the New York Times let us know than the EU diplomatic communications network had been hacked several times over the past few years. In short, it is quite clear why the EU wants to take action. And we're happy that he does using a tool Open source, secure and encrypted like Signal.
And it is not the only government body to have made this decision. For example in December 2019 we were informed which the Conservative Party also told its MPs to use Signal instead of Whatsapp!
And what do you think? We can only be pleased if Brussels recommends using Signal for your communications. It is an important building block for the use of this important communication tool and we hope that more and more people will adopt it as an alternative to Whatsapp.
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