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Regain Privacy: How to Protect Your Data on the Internet

Preserving privacy on the Internet isn’t easy: advertisers are finding ever more sophisticated ways to collect user data, and new, convenient technology detracts from the negative impact on privacy. The resulting decline in online privacy is further fueled by the fact that online privacy can, due to its abstract nature, be quite hard to grasp.

Group Calls Are Now Available on the Desktop

Mobile instant messengers became popular as a replacement for SMS messages. Today, they are one of the most widely used Internet services and are no longer limited to written communication – voice messages and video calls are now just as much a part of chat apps as text messages.

Data Security of Threema for Desktop

As highlighted by recent news stories and social media posts, the desktop apps of some messaging services are affected by a long-standing security issue. We’ve been asked whether Threema’s desktop client also suffers from this or any similar flaw. The short answer: No. Threema users don’t need to take any precautions and can continue to use the desktop app. The longer, more explanatory answer:

Cybersecurity Study: Do companies take data protection and security seriously?

The number of cyber incidents has been rising for years, and attacks on companies are becoming more aggressive and increasingly sophisticated. These worrying trends pose new organizational and financial challenges for companies. A study commissioned by Threema felt the pulse of managers from different business sectors. The goal of the study was to see what role cybersecurity plays in companies, with a focus on communication tools and mobile devices.

Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now!

With its legislative proposal known as “Chat Control,” the EU Commission is trying to establish an unprecedented mass-surveillance apparatus of Orwellian proportions in the European Union. If EU citizens don’t stand up for privacy now, it may be too late.

Online Privacy: An Endangered Species

The cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier has recently published an interesting blog post in which he (together with co-author Barath Raghavan) argues that online privacy is continuing to decline for the same reason overfishing occurred in the last century – due to the “Shifting Baseline Syndrome.” The presented analogy is a powerful one, but we still feel that it falls flat in some regards, and in reality, online privacy might even be worse off than suggested.

Threema Is Now Available in Swiss German

For the longest time, Swiss German was exclusively a spoken language – everything written had to be in standard German. This has changed with the emergence of chat apps like Threema: with its informal character, instant messaging helped dialects find their way into written communication.

Threema for iOS Presents New Features and UI Improvements

Voice messages polarize: while some use this feature on a daily basis, others prefer to keep their hands off it. Whichever camp you belong to: the most recent Threema update for iOS has something for everyone, sporting a new look for voice messages and adding the option to star messages.