Top 5 privacy-conscious social media platforms

Top 5 privacy-conscious social media platforms



Recently, WhatsApp informed its users that it would be implementing a change to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Users were given an ultimatum to accept or cease to use the app. This sent millions of people into a frenzy, with many individuals jumping ship in search for an alternative platform.


The extent to which the impact of WhatsApp’s T&C changes will truly have on individuals has likely been exaggerated. Indeed, WhatsApp simply wants the permission to share information gathered from the app with the broader Facebook family of products. More importantly, this data would not include messages, groups or call logs. As Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4 reiterates, “if anyone is already using Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram (the Facebook Family of products), then most of this information is already available to them”.


Yet, this debacle has no doubt shed light on a serious concern. Tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, are tirelessly mining the web for our data. As the more they know, the better they can target advertisements, which is ultimately where their profits lie.


While our right to privacy may often be touted, it is a right that appears to be increasingly difficult to preserve. Take the Cambridge Analytica scandal, for example. We witnessed as Facebook user data was harvested and exploited to manipulate voters in the run up to the 2016 US elections and Brexit referendum, with very real and sinister ramifications.


Yet, it would be futile, even undesirable, to turn back the time and revert to a life before social media. So, what then?


Fortunately, there are a number of privacy-conscious social media platfo ..

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