Articles tagged: Google Voice

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   Shields Up: Using Signal Without Giving Your Phone Number

   By Martin Shelton

   Posted on September 18, 2017

   Encrypted messaging apps like Signal, as well as WhatsApp and Viber, use your phone number as your main username. This means that if I want to chat with someone on these apps, I have to give them my phone number. But we may have many reasons—both practical and principled—not to share our number with someone. These digits are personal.