Privacy problems? Check out the most secure messaging apps in 2023: WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, more

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Digital privacy and data security have become essential in today's world when a majority of our day-to-day communication occurs online. We all use messaging apps where we chat with our friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances and share various kinds of information, including sensitive ones, with them. So, it is important to know whether the platform of our choice has a high focus on privacy and security or whether it is prone to data stealing. Noting the need, Avast, the cybersecurity software company, has released its list of most secure messaging apps in 2023. And we have curated the ones you can trust the most. So, let us check out the list. It includes WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Viber and Google Messages.

But before that, let us understand the basics.

In its blog post, Avast explains, “Secure messaging apps use encryption to keep the contents of communications private and prevent unauthorized parties from accessing your chats and calls. The most secure messaging apps use end-to-end encryption, ensuring that only the message sender and recipient can see the correspondence”.

If you're using an unencrypted messaging app, your communications could be exposed to the company running the app, advertisers, and hackers. And in case of a data breach, you could lose all of your data to malicious actors and it can even end up online. Your private information could even be sold online or used for identity theft and other cybercrimes.

With that being said, now let us move on to the most secure messaging apps of 2023.

With more than two billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps. But it is also one of the most secure. WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption for both