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Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting in pole-position for much of it.
Rejo Zenger, senior policy advisor at Dutch digital rights foundation Bits of Freedom, said that while it’s difficult to pinpoint one specific reason, he said he’s not surprised. With companies like Meta regularly being investigated and fined over data privacy practices, Signal might appear the lesser evil: it’s based in the U.S., but operated by a non-profit that promises to encrypt not only message content, but the metadata around it. Prior to joining TechCrunch in June 2022, Paul had gained more than a decade’s experience covering consumer and enterprise technologies for The Next Web (now owned by the Financial Times) and VentureBeat.
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