Anand Mahindra installs 'Signal' messaging app amid WhatsApp privacy concerns

Over 400 million Indian WhatsApp users this week received an in-app notification from WhatsApp as part of an upcoming global roll-out for over 2 billion users, asking them to either accept the changes in its Terms of Service and privacy policy by February 8 or their accounts will be deleted.

Millions of people are outraged by the latest change in WhatsApp Terms, which now say users must feed all their private data to Facebook's ad engine. Not just Telegram but another encrypted messaging app 'Signal' has seen a surge in new sign ins after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk vouched for it.

Anand Mahindra, the chairman of Mahindra Group, is the latest to sign up for the Signal messaging app, being dubbed as a secure alternative to the Facebook-owned WhatsApp.

"Have installed Signal messaging. Maybe soon there will be a #signalwonderbox," Mahindra tweeted. 

Have installed Signal messaging. Maybe soon there will be a #signalwonderbox

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) January 10, 2021