Five years ago today, on May 15, 2021, WhatsApp’s controversial new privacy policy came into effect. The update sparked global criticism and raised public awareness of the economic incentives behind data-driven online platforms. With users spending more time online, ever-growing volumes of data, and powerful new AI systems, the concerns raised back then are now even more justified than in 2021.
Together with Epic Games, Proton, and various other companies, we urge the European Parliament to not let Apple’s and Google’s circumvention of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) slide.
Good news for Threema Work administrators: With the latest Threema Work and Threema Broadcast update, centrally managed groups and distribution lists can be automatically created and managed based on tags. This significantly reduces the administrative workload.
Email, collaboration tool, chat app, telephone: digital infrastructures in companies are becoming increasingly complex. Furthermore, the fact that the number of cyberattacks continues to grow makes having a reliable out-of-band communication tool increasingly urgent – especially in light of the EU’s NIS2 Directive, which is to be transposed into national law by October 17, 2024.
The US-based market research company Forrester has published a comprehensive comparison of secure communications solutions. In the 2024 report, Threema is identified as a leader among top vendors on the market.
As the name implies, instant messaging is a fast-paced means of communication. This characteristic has numerous advantages – but also a few disadvantages: due to the fast pace, typos are the rule rather than the exception, and, what’s worse, sometimes messages get sent to the wrong contact in the heat of the moment.
The demand for secure corporate communication is increasing across Europe. This is in part because EU regulations such as NIS2 and DORA require companies to have a secure communication channel in place. As a result, more and more companies in the Spanish-speaking market are relying on Threema Work.
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.
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.
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:
