Notices by Threema (threemaapp@mastodon.social)

Today is #DeleteWhatsAppDay 🚮

Five years after WhatsApp’s controversial privacy policy change, Meta is expected to become the world’s largest digital ad company, making it more important than ever to question data-driven business models: https://threema.com/bp/deletewhatsappday-more-relevant-than-ever

It’s high time to debunk the “nothing to hide” argument once and for all: https://threema.com/bp/i-have-nothing-to-hide

You don’t need a reason to protect your privacy.

People who say they have nothing to hide apparently think encryption is only for criminals. Here’s our take on that: https://threema.com/bp/encryption-and-criminality

If you’re an Android user who takes privacy very seriously, you can:

💶 Pay Threema with cash: https://threema.com/bp/cash
👤 Use it without Google services: https://threema.com/bp/threema-push
📲 Download it from F-Droid: https://threema.com/bp/threema-libre

Stop feeding the hand that bites you. 🦈

As WhatsApp’s introduction of targeted ads goes to show, “if you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” https://www.theverge.com/news/687519/whatsapp-launch-advertising-status-updates

Mass surveillance is always an incredibly bad idea, for a whole host of reasons: https://threema.ch/bp/say-no-to-mass-surveillance

Data protection can be a regulatory hurdle, but it’s also an opportunity to establish sustainable digital business models. Read more in our latest blog post, written in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck: https://threema.ch/work/bp/data-minimization-at-universities

As The Atlantic’s recent story goes to show, strong encryption isn’t sufficient for a corporate – let alone governmental – messaging service: https://threema.ch/work/bp/limits-of-encryption

Embrace privacy

A frequently requested feature just hit the public beta: the ability to react to messages with emojis. 🙌 Join the beta program to give it a try! https://threema.ch/faq/betatest

Once again, we, together with various other companies, call on the @EUCommission to take swift action and enforce the Digital Markets Act: https://threema.ch/bp/open-letter-dma-2025

Today is Data Privacy Day! 🙌 To celebrate this awareness day, we’ve created a sticker collection dedicated to online privacy. Like and repost to win a set! https://threema.ch/bp/dpd25

Sharing is caring.*

*) Sharing user data with Big Tech is careless, though.

There’s still a chance to win one of ten Punkt privacy smartphones that run the Apostrophy operating system and now come with Threema pre-installed: https://threema.ch/bp/apostrophy

Today, you can get a seriously secure messaging app that doesn’t track you, can be used anonymously, is developed and maintained in Switzerland, has been around for over a decade, and is, for example, used by the Swiss Army… for €6.

PS: That’s the same price as any other day of the year.

As of Threema 6.4 for iOS, which just hit the App Store, you can link up to two computers with your mobile device. 📱🔄🖥️💻 https://itunes.apple.com/app/threema/id578665578?mt=8

Here we go again. Tomorrow, there will be another attempt to undermine encryption in the EU. #StopChatControl

Have you ever wanted to edit or delete a sent Threema message? Now you can: https://threema.ch/bp/edit-delete