

We had good reason to collect that data – so we could match people – but we spent a lot of time and effort thinking carefully about how to best protect it. When my co-founder Chris Coyne and I were working on OkCupid, we were surprised by how willing our users were to entrust their most deeply personal data to the site. They left OKCupid and started working on an app that was oriented towards a need for privacy. What to do? In 2015, Max Krohn and Chris Coyne, two of the founders of dating site OKCupid, found themselves wondering the same thing. Telegram is my messenger of choice, but their cryptographic algorithm is still under question. Signal is wonderful but a huge headache to use. ) You could use iMessage, which is in theory secure (if you trust Apple’s newfound market-based commitment to privacy) unless you message someone on Android. (Whatsapp founder Jan Koum specifically left Facebook over privacy concerns. You could try Whatsapp, but that’s now owned by Facebook which means, in spite of end-to-end encryption, Facebook could potentially still be accessing that content. But Facebook automatically scans these messages for abuse and combs through them manually for other, random pieces of information. Someone is always listening: either the company providing the chat service, or governments (Normcore post), or third parties who want to scoop up data.įor example, you could try Facebook Messenger. Today, it’s nearly impossible to have a truly private conversation online.
