BeReal: data protection and privacy

BeReal: data protection and privacy

How secure is the BeReal App? The new social media app BeReal is currently booming in the app stores and is becoming increasingly popular, especially among the younger Generation Z. This is because instead of showing edited images and staged videos like other social...
Telegram App: The data protection and privacy situation

Telegram App: The data protection and privacy situation

This is how secure the Telegram app is for iOS and Android Alongside WhatsApp, the messenger app Telegram is probably one of the best-known in Germany. It has registered a significant increase in users in recent years (550 million as of 2021), which is not least due...
Signal App: data protection and privacy

Signal App: data protection and privacy

This is how secure the Signal app is for iOS and Android More and more users are switching from WhatsApp to Signal. After all, Signal, like many other WhatsApp alternatives, advertises that it is particularly privacy and data security compliant. We tested how secure...
Reface App and Co. – How dangerous are deepfake apps?

Reface App and Co. – How dangerous are deepfake apps?

Reface app in data privacy test A quick swap – and your own face on Vin Diesel’s body is already smiling out of the camera. The fact that this is possible is due to the Reface app, a so-called deepfake application that has quickly conquered the top 10...
The best WhatsApp alternatives at a glance

The best WhatsApp alternatives at a glance

WhatsApp privacy under criticism again As of February 08, 2021, Facebook is updating its privacy policy on WhatsApp, leading to great uncertainty and criticism from users, not to mention a mass exodus to alternative messengers like Signal, Telegram oder Threema....