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15 Nov 2016

Amnesty Intl's digital privacy assessment on 11 companies' messaging apps ranks Facebook & Apple top & Tencent last

“Amnesty International…conducted a privacy assessment of the most popular messaging apps in the world...Facebook and Apple scored the highest for having the best security. China-based Tencent came in last, with Blackberry and Snapchat also bringing up the rear…Amnesty's main concern with many of the services is that they do not have what's known as end-to-end encryption set as the default…”

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