Signal app downloads seem to have seen a rise, since the news of Whatsapp’s new privacy policy about sharing user’s personal data and information with the latter’s parent company Facebook has spread like a wild fire.
Co founders of both the companies put all the news to halt, when both confirmed that Signal won't replace WhatsApp.
The two apps have different purposes, Brian Acton, the executive chairman of the Signal Foundation said. He co-founded Signal after leaving WhatsApp in 2017. Acton also co-founded WhatsApp and then sold it to Facebook for $22 billion in 2014.
"I have no desire to do all the things that WhatsApp does," Acton said, though he didn't specify which WhatsApp features he wouldn't replicate.
He said he expected people to rely on Signal to talk to family and close friends while continuing to talk to other people on WhatsApp. Acton has been an outspoken critic of Facebook; in 2018, he urged Facebook users to delete their accounts.
He has said he left WhatsApp in 2017 "due to differences surrounding the use of customer data and targeted advertising."
