Signal was blocked on Facebook-owned Instagram

Signal has tried to run a series of Instagram ads to show the amount of data the social media platform and its parent company Facebook collect about users and how it uses the data to push targeted ads.

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Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls.

Signal, which is owned by a nonprofit corporation, competes with WhatsApp. Both WhatsApp and Instagram are owned by social media giant Facebook.

Signal, which has a specific focus on privacy (its tagline is ‘Say hello to privacy’), claims companies like Facebook collect user data from their bouquet of apps “in order to sell visibility into people and their lives”.

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