WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by lmm on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:42AM (#12548557)

Signal is pseudo-open-source but will not allow you to use it except via the closed-source google play services, so I still wouldn't have confidence in it.

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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by glogla on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:43AM (#12549229)

Yes. Also, on what payroll is Moxie now? He was working with Facebook on WhatsApp and then worked with Google on their new messaging app.

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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by codethief on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:27PM (#12549682)

This is incorrect. There is an open source reimplementation of Google Play Services (https://microg.org/) and Signal works beautifully with it.

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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by claudius on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:26PM (#12550886)

And wherefrom can you get Signal except for the Google Play store? I was looking for it a while ago to install on my phone but only found two other projects which were threatened by moxie and then shut down.

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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by aorth on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:18PM (#12551326)

I compile my own binaries. Not too bad actually.

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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by kuschku on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:23PM (#12550860)

So the Signal APK does NOT depend on the Google Cloud Messaging library anymore, which pulls in 40k LOC of analytics?

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