1/ In early 2021, WhatsApp announced an updated privacy policy requiring users to accept that their account details, phone number, metadata, financial transactions, log reports, location, device identifiers, and IP addresses will be shared with Facebook. medium.com/dfinity/opench…
2/ Users were told to accept the new policy or risk losing access to their account. Amid the ensuing controversy, the ultimatum changed: if users don’t comply, the messaging app will now gradually degrade in service until it stops operating entirely.
3/ This is why 2 UK-based IC developers are building OpenChat, a decentralized messaging service that functions much like existing messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal, with a key difference being that OpenChat runs end-to-end on a blockchain, the #InternetComputer.
4/ OpenChat will become an open internet service through tokenization on the Internet Computer, which means the dapp will be decentralized and governed entirely by the community — no company will be tracking and selling your data.
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