Signal has estimated 40-70 million monthly users - making it pretty tiny compared to the biggest messaging services, WhatsApp and Messenger, which count their customers in the billions. Where it does ...

Signal has been the most high-profile app in the news lately because of the controversy surrounding its use by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Signal is a secure messaging platform known for ...

It's still not a good idea to use the app for sensitive government information, and it's weird that we have to keep saying that.

Are we willing to risk our department’s integrity and security on an app that was not designed for lawful use?

Privacy concerns have never been more critical in our digital communications. As government agencies target messaging platforms and data breaches become more ...

A dozen current and former officials confirmed that the encrypted messaging app is used across various agencies — despite ...

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But the main distinction between Signal and WhatsApp is that the latter ...

The cumbersome, outmoded technology is a bad fit for the demands of national security work. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the Signal app on a personal computer in his office that was connected to the internet on ...

The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication between Hegseth and other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.

Signal has features that are found on other ... Beyond concerns about security, Signal and other similar apps may allow users to skirt open records laws. Without special archiving software ...